The Prometheus Initiative delivers solar-powered libraries to communities without internet. Each device, a hand-held single board computer powered by the sun, contains the wide breadth of human knowledge: Wikipedia in multiple languages, Khan Academy’s complete curriculum, medical databases, and educational resources carefully curated for offline access.
Knowledge is not a luxury. It’s oxygen for the mind, fuel for ambition, the foundation upon which futures are built. A child in a refugee camp deserves the same access to calculus as a student in California. A woman seeking to start a business shouldn’t be denied information because she lacks connectivity. A community recovering from conflict needs knowledge as much as it needs food and water. We’re not building dependency. We’re building capacity. Each device becomes a community resource, a school without walls, a library without books to burn, a university accessible to anyone within Wi-Fi range.