Power Up Gambia Interns, “Our Memories in The Gambia!”

Richard Chen is a rising senior at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2019 Power Up Gambia intern. He worked at Bwiam General Hospital supporting nurses and doctors and provided outreach on diabetes prevention. Check out his YouTube vlogs from his time in The Gambia below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ed59heLt7s My name is Fatima Al Rashed, and I am a rising junior at the University of Pennsylvania. I was born and raised in…

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Upgrading the Bwiam Hospital’s Solar Power System

It is exciting to be finally upgrading the Bwiam Hospital solar power system from its original 12kW solar system commissioned in 2009. For this project, we selected the Gambian company Greenlink ( http://www.greenlink.solar/ ) to serve as our contractor. Critically, all three of the Bwiam Hospital’s electrical maintenance staff – Saikou, Sarjo and Omar – worked with Greenlink on every step of the process so that they could understand each…

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