Wind Turbine for the Poor

According to an ADB bank report, more than 600,000 households and schools still lack access to electricity in Vietnam; all of them are the poor and low-income people, and they are living in mountainous and remote areas where the electrical supply from the government is hard to reach. Their income is very low and they don’t have the ability to buy electricity. Children are severely affected by the lack of access to electrical energy - 60% are primary schools and 40% are secondary schools.

Energy has multiple uses other than lighting, people uses it for cooking and water heating and other supplies. Lack of access to energy in the mountainous and remote areas in Vietnam leads to several problems:

 	
lack of adequate and properly prepared food and limited choice of what to cook resulting in nutrition deprivation;
 	
inadequate light to read at night leading to poor education;
 	
Limited access to information thus leading to deprivation of information, communication and education; and
 	
lack of access to pumped water and sanitation especially in schools.