By Ilaria Grasso Macola
14 January 2020
French NGO Électriciens sans frontières (Electricians without borders) has won the Zayed Sustainability Prize for Energy for its work in the Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh.
In Abu Dhabi, an international jury headed by former President of Iceland Ólafur Grímsson chose the NGO from among 2,300 candidates and awarded it with the 600,000-dollar-prize. Its ‘Light for the Rohingyas’ project consisted of teaching renewable energy and entrepreneurship to both Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi citizens.
In Abu Dhabi, an international jury headed by former President of Iceland Ólafur Grímsson chose the NGO from among 2,300 candidates and awarded it with the 600,000-dollar-prize. Its ‘Light for the Rohingyas’ project consisted of teaching renewable energy and entrepreneurship to both Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi citizens.