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Women asked to sleep last to save electricity
The energy conservation campaign was organised by the VRA/NEDCo Ladies Association in Walewale
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There are many energy-draining appliances around the home, but while so many of them are essential it's the non-essentials we use for entertainment that consume a significant portion of our household energy.
Women spend hours at home consuming more power in the absence of their husbands who would often return home very tired.
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Energy experts in the northern part of Ghana said, women are to wait until everyone else calls it a night, to make sure all gadgets that won't be needed throughout the night are unplugged before they go to bed.
The VRA/NEDCo Area Manager for the Upper East region, Lucy Perbi-Nyarko speaking at a public energy conservation forum at Walewale, in the Northern region, said, "As a woman, mostly we use electricity. And you should be the last person to sleep so that you put off all the gadgets and the lights that you don’t need during the night. And, then, you are supposed to be the first person also to wake up to put off all the security lights and put on what you need for the day."
She said, "You know men- mostly they don’t stay in the house. By the time he comes home, he’s already tired. He eats and then sleeps. But you the woman and the kids- you are always in the house. So, you have to practise it and try to educate the man and help the man also to practise the same concept."
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The energy conservation campaign was organised by the VRA/NEDCo Ladies Association in Walewale and themed "Energy Conservation, the Role of Women and Youth".
The organisers moved through the main streets of the district to educate on conserving energy and heard some grievances from the public on the problems they have had with the power crisis and their electricity meters.
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