SELCO Foundation

SELCO Foundation is an India-based not-for-profit organization that aims to democratize essential services such as health, education, and access to respectable livelihoods by using sustainable energy as a catalyst. Its work links the benefits of sustainable energy to poverty eradication by playing a pivotal role in catalyzing innovations via evidence-based research. The award enables SELCO Foundation to incorporate systemic energy planning using decentralized renewable energy within livelihood and health programs in the states of Odisha and Jharkhand. It furthers an existing initiative of the SELCO Foundation called Sustainable Energy-led Climate Action Program that prioritizes the needs of the poor, who are currently at the center of the two greatest challenges that humankind is facing today, poverty and climate change.

Since 2010, the Selco Foundation has worked at the intersection of sustainability and poverty alleviation by mainstreaming the use of sustainable energy. With this award, Selco Foundation is providing support to remote, rural communities in Odisha (India) to access quality medical services using an energy-efficient, climate-resilient infrastructure.