The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria Lagos Chapter, APWENLagos has donated and installed solar modules and five solar street lights to the Epe Campus of Lagos State University, LASU.
This is after APWENLagos led by the chairman, Engr Atinuke Owolabi went on a familiarisation tour toLASU Epe Campus to pay a courtesy visit to the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering on the fifth of March, which led to the discovery of the female Engineering students poor-living condition.
Owolabi said APWENLagos is now on a mission to improve electricity and water provision at LASU Epe Campus by installing a Solar System at the Female Engineering Hostel.
She noted that the male hostel will not be left out as a solar street light is expected to also be installed there as part of efforts to further light up the campus.
” Why is this project important for APWENLagos :
-Empowering Female Engineers to enhance the learning environment of/for female engineering students and thus improve access to water which presently portends an impending public health challenge to our girls on campus.
-Sustainable Solution to embrace renewable energy to reduce carbon footprint.
-Academic Excellence to encourage uninterrupted study sessions with reliable electricity supply.”
The Chairman, APWENLagos while giving an analysis of the electricity provision at the LASU Epe campus, listed the intervention to include:
”Provision and installation of 1.5kva Solar system, provision, and installation of 5 of 300W Solar streetlights to female and male Engineering hostels, provision and installation of water pump charge controller with solar panels.
On his part, the Head of the Epe Campus, Prof. Elkanah Oyetunji, while receiving the items, appreciated the Association for the kind gesture, which he believed would make the atmosphere more conducive for the students.
