In December, Caroline took the first SLA prototype along with these packaging and instruction guides out to Kenya to gather feedback from 40 men and women living with little, if any electricity around Nairobi county.
Testing: Packaging focus groups in Kenya
The [kerosene] lamp emits smoke little by little and it fills the house and so it becomes a problem because children can have chest problems. Therefore it is not good. It does not have any advantage, just that one doesn’t have a choice that is why we use it… If I get something like this [GravityLight], I will not go back to using kerosene. This is because it cannot make someone sick, it will make one to have good health because it does not emit anything…