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25. ABIOLA Campaign – Solar on Installments
A SolarKit campaign allows a group of people in Africa to buy an ABIOLA SolarKit at favourable rates in installments. In addition, these people can test the solar system free of charge for a certain period of time in advance. The affected people/families of a group...
24. Action “SOLARKITS FOR NGO EMPLOYEES”
Countless employees in aid stations of non-profit organisations (NGOs) in Africa strive every day to alleviate the plight of citizens. In most cases, there is a lack of financial resources to provide good working conditions and to adequately reward the work of the...
23. Action “1000 SolarKits” Delay due to Crisis
Unfortunately, the Corona crisis COVID-19 also affects ABIOLA and thus also ABIOLA NGO partners and the affected people in Africa. The ABIOLA LichtPortal was launched in October 2019 and about 500 families and projects have been registered in the LichtPortal until...
22. Action “FOTO SPENDE” for Africa
You like the ABIOLA LightPortal and you've been to Africa yourself? Then you have certainly also taken some beautiful nature photos, which today linger in your "digital" drawer. It is a pity, because many people would be interested in the inconspicuous beauties of the...
21. Orphanage in Nigeria
An orphanage in Nigeria is particularly close to ABIOLA's heart. The home-for-the-need orphanage has grown from 450 to more than 4,500 children and those in need since 2015. Most of the children are refugees who have escaped the unimaginable violence of the terrorist...
20. Abiola WishLight
With a one-time donation of 35 euros, you fulfill a great wish for a family in Africa. This Abiola Family SolarKit is given a turnkey solar system with a non-single lamp. Cold light for working, hot light for relaxing, 5200 mAh battery with USB output for charging...
19. Abiola Light Portal: Family Project
If our African partners report how people react when they receive an Abiola Family SolarKit as a gift, they would have been too happy to be there. For people, it means light at night at no additional cost. Charge the phone at any time at no additional cost. And all...
18. The Abiola Light Portal
The Abiola LichtPortal is an internet platform with the aim of donating as many solar systems as possible, also called solar kits for emergency relief projects and families. The development effort of the LichtPortal was great, the provision and maintenance of the data...
17. Product Presentation – Abiola LadeKit (no solar)
The idea for the Abiola LadeKit came from the findings of the Abiola Blog Article 8 on supporting students for light for learning in the evening. With great effort, a solution was sought to provide a solar system capable of charging 50-70 power banks a day to provide...
16. Product Presentation – Abiola PowerbankKit 2600 mAh
The Abiola PowerbankKit is a small and affordable set and can - used thousands of times - have a great effect in terms of education, communication and well-being. The 2600 mAh power bank in the set is charged with a USB port. These ports offer all Abiola kits from the...
15. Product Launch – Abiola Families SolarKit 3.5W/10W
The Abiola Family SolarKit is designed for families who do not have power. Abiola does not donate individual SolarKits to families, but only to family groups in cooperation with the caring AbiolaPartner. A family group can be a small village community or a group of...
14. Product Launch – Abiola Charger 30W/60W
The Abiola Charger 30W/60W is the smaller SolarKit from Abiola's turnkey solar systems. The system is designed for lighting different rooms. This device can also be operated with 60W solar power. In this case, 2 PV modules must be connected in parallel. The powerful...
13. Product Launch – Abiola TurboCharger 60W/120W
The Abiola TurboCharger is the flagship of Abiola's turnkey solar systems. As already described, the system can be operated with a maximum of 120W solar power. The powerful 12V outputs allow much more than just lighting rooms. The built-in 24 Ah battery allows power...
12. Solar lighting for an orphanage in Uganda
The Orphanage project in Uganda is dedicated to creating a new home for 16 orphans aged 6-13 near Jinja Town. For this purpose, the association collected "Help for Self-Help Walldorf e.V." Donate to purchase a plot of land including fencing. Construction of the first...
11. Worldwide Solar Radiation
This article has a technical background and is intended to show which uses exist for photovoltaics in which place on earth. Just because a country has a high solar global radiation per year does not mean that photovoltaic energy can be used there all year round....
10. Small effort-Great joy
Brigitte Ankele works Volunteer for the Lions Clup Kempten-Cambodunum and has been caring for villages in GHANA in the Akwapim region for many years. The focus of their work is to inform the population about how water with PET bottles can be treated by means of solar...
9. Community use of Abiola Turbo Charger and USB lamps
Different families, which are spatially separated from each other, use together an Abiola charging station and several Abiola hand lamps C5 (see pictures). Once charged, the hand lamp is taken to the respective living area and can light up to 100 hours. The concept is...
8. Schools – Further education with Abiola Turbo Charger
A lot of students dream about it. Learn and study a lot in order to make a valuable contribution to the development of Africa in the future. It often fails because the older pupils are already professionally employed in the afternoons. From darkness from about 18:00...
7. Family community – Light, Communication, TV
Both the Abiola Charger 30W and the Abiola Turbo Charger 60W can be used for lighting several huts, buildings or rooms.The picture shows a village in Togo, which was equipped with the already described Togo system by Alpensolar Human e.V. Here it is easy to see that...
6. The two measuring instruments are correctly inserted
If the technical possibilities of the Abiola Turbo Charger are fully exploited, the risk that the resulting output currents exceed the permissible values also increases. This, in turn, could cause a considerable damage to the system. It could even lead to its...
5. Double the solar power from the Abiola Turbo Charger
The Abiola Turbo Charger 60W is usually delivered with a 60W PV module. The double solar output can also be connected to the Turbo Charger. However, there are a few things that should be taken into account.A parallel connection of solar modules can double the solar...
4. USB splitter 6-fold inserted several times
The Abiola USB splitter is designed to allow many more users to benefit from an Abiola Turbo Charger. The USB splitter creates charging stations that can charge up to 100 power banks (mini-batteries) during the day.This article describes how this can be achieved, what...
3. Difference of Abiola Charger and Turbo Charger
The Abiola Turbo Charger 60W is the main product of the Abiola Offgrid series. This has significant ports (outputs) and can be optimally expanded. In addition to the Abiola Turbo Charger 60W, there is also the Turbo Charger 30W. This is also justified, but for a...
2. Abiola – Is it for humanitarian or commercial purposes?
You may wonder to know for what reasons Abiola has been founded. For commercial, economic or humanitarian reasons? Abiola gGmbH is a non-profit organization.One sentence would not be enough to give an answer to that question. The following lines will describe...
1. The creation of Abiola – photovoltaic for 50 villages in Togo
During an aid campaign, during which 50 villages in Togo were equipped with an off-grid photovoltaic system, valuable findings were gathered which led to the establishment of the company Abiola GmbH.As briefly reported in the section "about us", the company Abiola...