Until recently, the closest junior high student Misheka Mitchel had ever come to solar power was reading about it in her schoolbooks. Then her school installed rooftop solar panels as part of the national drive to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. Now Misheka and her school friends can see the actual technology and benefits of its clean, inexhaustible energy.
Misheka is a student of Christian Faith Academy, one of the nineteen schools in Antigua and Barbuda benefiting from the government’s Sustainable Pathways – Protected Areas, Renewable Energy (SPPARE) project. The school’s principal Terence Harvey has engaged young students, including Misheka, in the project to install solar panels in the school campus.
