Today, James is 33, and many parents in rural Tanzania – where all year round the sun sets at around 7pm – must still choose ...

He began visiting schools, attracting hundreds of children to his reading clubs. Innocent James started making solar backpacks when he realized that children in his reading clubs could not read ...

Parents often opt to send their children to bed, James explained, rather than allowing them to use the lamp to read. James’ solution – flexible solar panels sewn onto the outside of bags to ...