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A big challenge that the community has is that the kids get taught during the day and
in the evening the parents don’t get an education because they work during the day
they can’t learn because there is no light in the school. Particularly for the adults
they don’t get a time during the day to be able to learn and be able to learn how
to read and write. A lot of the seniors want to get educated. A lot of elders within the
organization want to get educated. And it’s also a nice facility in the evenings for them
to gather and celebrate. And that’s why I think bringing electricity to some of these
parts of the world that never had it before is so exciting and meaningful. If you can
bring electricity to rural areas, people who are once isolated are less so. And I think
that if we can do this right and do this well, I think we can do it over and over and over
again and really have a big impact on a lot of people. A school like this just will never
get electricity unless you have local generation. It needs to change. We need to create electricity
at the place where it is needed. We can skip the legacy infrastructure and build out the
new infrastructure the smarter and better way. So our mission now is to bring light
to this community. In the process we are sort of teaching them the skill, they get to see
how we are installing, they are participating. There are some dual benefits there. It’s
simple to use. We have battery back-up for the system and it will create a lot of electricity
for them that they can use whenever they need to. The average consumer by them taking advantage
of solar through SolarCity they are actually helping this community as well. I think the
dream is to create a culture within a company that is all about growing and giving. At SolarCity
we grow our business by over one hundred percent annually in an effort to really bring alternative
forms of energy to the rest of the country. If we can find a way internally to create
a culture that is about growing and giving, we’re like, yes, we are growing the business.
Yes, we’re bringing this technology to different parts of the United States. But then how do
we create that giving aspect as well, I think that is very powerful.