A Day in the Life...
It’s 5 AM, and as a young girl living in sub- Saharan Africa it is your job to gather wood for the day of cooking that lies ahead. You head out from your
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home before the sun rises in search of materials for burning. After a few hours of collecting wood, which is not only time consuming, but strenuous work you head back home. You then begin cooking with your mother inside your small house with poor ventilation. This lasts hours, and by the time you are finished you will have inhaled an unhealthy amount of toxic fumes that could easily lead to fatal respiratory  
problems. Once the cooking is done and if you happen to have free time, you head to school. After school you continue helping with chores and cooking. Once everything is done it is time to do homework, but since it is dark and you
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have no source of light you must find the nearest streetlamp and pick a spot on the curb to begin your studies. This routine could stay the same for months, years, or even your entire life if people do not band together to eradicate energy poverty.