Comment document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a3422bcd2d5129f47849d8d9c4d28abb" );document.getElementById("ea23caedc9").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Sr Mathilde - 'Energy for healthcare saves lives'. “Energy access for health facilities helps the morale of healthcare professionals, as then they are able to help as well as they can,” insists Sr Mathilde. It is our work to show them what they are due – clean water, better education, better health services, which are all related to energy.”. Clean and does not pollute the environment. Life without Electricity! Can you imagine delivering a child using a candle at night?

Group Study - Advantages and Disadvantages, Helping your child enhance his Special Talent. World Refugee Day: Building trust and friendship, How Saint Francis inspired a harvest prayer, Live simply to celebrate the Season of Creation, The significance of St Francis in the light of Laudato Si’, Gospel reflection: Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, Power to be: How lack of electricity affects everything - and what you can do about it. Sitting in front of your PC doing your work or watching television, you suddenly become irritated when the power goes out. “People do not even know their rights. Our lives are so dependent on electricity that even an hour of electricity cut seems like a never-ending time. Sounds torturous and unacceptable. She reports from Zambia, where access to electricity can transform lives. (No air conditioning) Individual room fireplaces or stoves. A lump of coal could be stored in a shed and still be as good as the day it was mined. Required fields are marked *. As electricity became surplus, so did its supply and its varied applications which improved all aspects of our lives. New to Target Study? This is supposed to help tackle poverty, but there is a problem: currently only a tiny proportion of World Bank spending supports the kind of energy that we know can empower the poorest communities. Yesteryears luxury is a necessity today. CAFOD’s new Power to be campaign, calling on the World Bank to support local, renewable energy to tackle poverty. The below-mentioned points are presented keeping in mind the exhaustion of conventional sources of electricity and the fact that humanity is already developing renewable sources of energy. There are a couple key ones: 1. I am not just there to give an injection, but to embrace patients as people, as fellow human beings.”. Rural areas without access to electricity can find it hard to attract good teachers, as well as medical staff. Emergencies cannot be attended to if there is no power. But there’s something we can all do, here in England and Wales: we can also lend our voices to their cause. Look around you, everything runs on electricity.

Hannah Mottram works in CAFOD’s policy team. She knows first-hand about the many challenges faced by health services in developing countries. Sign our Power to be petition, calling for more support for local, renewable energy. Some power … “Often they can’t help because they do not have access to energy, even though they have the skills.”. It is hard to imagine a day without electricity and a life with no electricity, is a terrible thought but a thought-provoking one; one which should be considered to know our options and strategies in the wake of an actual power crisis. That’s why we’re asking the UK to use its influence at the World Bank to shift the balance and support local, renewable energy that can lift people out of poverty. Disadvantages: No long distance communication, no electric chair, no space station, no Hubble Telescope, no avoidance of day/night cycle, …

Too numerous to list them all but here are a few: Reading and performing surgery by candlelight. Potential energy of the water stored In a dam changes to kinetic energy to drive turbines. Find out more about the Power to be campaign. Water is freely available in large quantities. If there is no electricity, we do not pay our electric bills, so we can save money. In order to obtain a vast capacity of electrical energy, hundreds of natural habitats can be … The authorities of the world will have to resolve their conflicts in a hope to overcome the most relevant issue at hand. “The role of the Church in Zambia is advocacy: to be a voice for the poor,” she continues. This can cost lives. “Lack of pumped water leads to outbreaks of cholera or dysentery. It makes disease control very difficult. 5. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. To enable communities to flourish, this has to change. When we met in Zambia recently, we discussed one challenge which is sometimes overlooked: lack of access to electricity. (No electric lights) Cooling your house with ice harvested last winter. How to use Online Education Sites to upgrade Skills? – Energy crisis will be a worldwide phenomenon, the gravity of its effect may vary but they are pertinent. Hydro.