00:21back in the map room but the pins have changed green for charged gray for waiting
00:30the donut chart no longer shows loss it shows distance covered namata 60 days 23 e-bikes
00:404200 kilometers women doing market runs that used to take six hours walking now take 45 minutes
00:48leaner income up 40 for the market women school drop-offs the girls are no longer late
00:55but look at this gray slice 31 downtime elvis downtime is the truth we must show both
01:06success and stuck namata tomorrow we go to the field the chart is not the community
01:14the community is the community dirt road mango tree
01:20three matte black cargo e-bikes with crates of green mangoes this is where the project lives not on a
01:27screen elvis how is the cargo rack last time you said it shook youth rider we tightened it boss
01:37now i can carry 80 kilos yesterday two sacks of maize lena and the battery how far before you worry
01:47youth rider if i go to town and back 30 kilometers i come home with one bar if it rains
01:56less
01:57namata one bar is hope zero bar is a lesson we are learning village mother my son these bikes are
02:07quiet like goats but they carry like oxen impact has a face her name is toma
02:14before 5 a.m walk tomatoes bruised now 7 a.m ride tomatoes fresh profit doubled
02:24toma before men with pickups charged me 10 000 to take my goods now i charge myself nothing
02:32my daughter rides with me to school on the back lena
02:37that's the metric we don't put on the chart girl on back seat going to school on time elvis how
02:46much did
02:46you save this month toma 120 000 shillings i am saving for my own solar panel now namata you see
02:56e-bike is not
02:58transport it is income it is freedom every good project meets mud rain red battery light no grid
03:11load shedding since morning you cannot charge hope when there is no power elvis this road ate the tire
03:20again second time this week no matter and the battery we charged at 40 percent yesterday because of load
03:28shedding it died halfway the system says we need six hours full charge grid gave us two lena in us
03:38we call
03:39this range anxiety here it's survival anxiety if she cannot get to market she cannot eat village mother
03:47the rain has always been here but now your bike fears it we must make a bike that does not
03:54fear rain
03:56and power that does not fear darkness circle wooden benches blackboard challenges
04:05mud battery theft no spares load shedding no one hides this is diploma now talk now fix now
04:15village mother my grandchildren you brought us quiet bikes but you forgot we have loud problems who will
04:23fix when it breaks my grandson cannot eat a battery elvis you are right judge are we imported bikes but
04:32not
04:33knowledge that ends today namata we propose community ownership not one rider owns the cooperative owns
04:44if one tire dies all ten women contribute five thousand elder man in circle and charging
04:52when you takes power leaner that's tomorrow's drawing today we listen keep talking whiteboard
05:02no more complaints only sketches solar flows like water battery like a granary store sun for night elvis solution
05:13one swappable batteries you don't wait to charge you swap like you swap a soda two minutes namata solution
05:23two solar canopy in the square not dependent on grid sun charges even when you is sleeping
05:32load shedding becomes irrelevant leaner solution three train two youth as technicians
05:39from this village paid they fix tires they fix wires no waiting for kampala village mother
05:49and solution four and solution four am i room my roof has sun all day can my roof help charge
05:56all yes jaja your roof will power the bikes upscaling begins on the roof white hard hats stone tech hub
06:07building solar panels rising like new leaves the village mother watches from below her idea now glass and light
06:17number 12 panels 5 kilowatts enough to charge 10 e-bikes a day even in cloudy season elvis no more
06:27asking
06:28you we make our own power sustainable community owned leaner this is bigger than e-bikes
06:38this is the answer to load shedding if the hub has power the village has power village mother be careful
06:45up there my son is strong midday powerful sun the first solar canopy in the village square
06:55five matte black e-bikes charging green leds breathing no noise only sun becoming movement youth it says charging
07:07green green no matter how long to fall youth it says three hours before with grid it took all night
07:16and
07:16still failed elvis and cost youth free sun is free before we paid five thousand for charging at trading center
07:29leaner this is upscaling one canopy becomes three three becomes one per parish
07:35then load shedding is just a story we tell children village mother let this sun work for us as it
07:43always
07:43has night the test left side of village blackout load shedding darkness right side tech hub and three homes
07:56warm light e-bike headlights cutting road like fireflies power that does not beg
08:04namata look same village two realities left darkness because grid is gone
08:13right light because we made our own elvis last month when load shedding came our e-bikes died
08:21now when load shedding comes our e-bikes bring light they have reverse power they can power a bulb
08:28leaner leaner in america we call this resilience here you call it common sense
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08:57official channel hashtag creations village mother we call it we finally stopped waiting for others to
09:04switch on our light golden hour again same courtyard but now the circle moves e-bikes riding in slow circle
09:14around the four leads cheering charts on table up 70 uptime fruit bowls string lights next steps already
09:26whispering elvis 080 is not the end 080 is proof proof that solar plus e-bike beats load shedding
09:37namata next 20 more bikes two more solar canopies and training for the women to be technicians
09:46not just riders fixers leaner and we document everything so ghana so kenya can copy not copy paste copy
09:59adapt village mother my son will you put a solar panel on my chicken house too all laugh
10:07yes jaja chicken house gets solar too
