GIFT GLOBAL INITIATIVE
SPORTS FOR SOLAR – A DIPLOMACY INITIATIVE
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n 2018, GIFT Global Initiative launched its Global Diplomacy Initiative called Sports for Solar with the aim of educating children about our Environment through the powerful medium of Sports, simultaneously strengthening diplomatic ties between countries by engaging government participation in this unique initiative. In partnership with the UAE embassy in Pretoria, GIFT completed two successful events reaching 4000 households in Soweto, South Africa the settlement which was once home to Nelson Mandela. Prior to this initiative, these 4000 families lived in extreme poverty without sanitation or power. The water looks filthy, and the streets were filled with excrement. Connecting such shantytowns to the electricity grid has been extremely timeconsuming, and costly. This partnership initiative between GIFT and the United Arab Emirates Embassy in Pretoria has not
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only helped these families access cheap, portable, and clean power to alleviate poverty and increase their quality of life but has done so with year round sports education for the children. GIFT adopted A World Clean Energy Initiative that aims at providing 100,000 households access to low-cost portable solar energy. This clean energy initiative will expand access to Low-cost, Durable and Portable Solar Lights to low-income communities across 20 countries. Ms. Manna Dabholkar, CEO of GIFT said, “We
invite corporate brands and government embassies to join us on this unique journey of lighting up 100000 households in some of the roughest areas of our planet. For the embassies, this wonderful diplomacy initiative will bridge the gap between the host country and the home country, using
