Impact

Keeping learning, business, and public life connected.

VLA treats shared charging as a human infrastructure service. A single station can support a student's online class, a merchant's mobile payment, a commuter's safe trip, or a family's essential call.

1.5M+

Users served across public venues, campuses, retail districts, and community spaces.

30M+

Charging sessions delivered for work, study, payments, and family communication.

85%

Local employee share across African operations, maintenance, and support teams.

Power Angel service supporting students in a classroom

Power Angel

Discounted or sponsored charging for schools and low-income communities.

Power Angel is VLA's social access program for students, young entrepreneurs, and communities affected by frequent outages. Each program can combine sponsored rental quotas, low-price time windows, station-based education, and partner reporting.

  • Provide low-cost or free charging windows in schools and community centers.
  • Help students keep online classes, learning files, and communication tools available.
  • Support young entrepreneurs who rely on mobile payments, delivery apps, and customer messaging.

Stories

Impact appears in everyday moments, not only in dashboards.

Students using a VLA charging station on campus
Education

Students stay online during power interruptions

Campus stations near libraries, dormitories, and cafeterias help students continue online classes, research, assignments, and family communication when power is unreliable.

VLA power bank placed on a table while charging a phone
Entrepreneurship

Small merchants gain more business certainty

Mobile payment, delivery coordination, social selling, and customer replies all depend on battery. VLA places charging service close to where local commerce happens.

Local VLA team maintaining equipment
Jobs

Local teams build long-term operating capacity

VLA hires and trains local maintenance, inspection, customer support, and venue success teams so the shared energy network becomes part of local employment growth.

Data for Good

Station usage can help partners understand outage hotspots.

When a location repeatedly shows high rental demand during specific time windows, it may reveal gaps in local power access. VLA uses anonymized station data to help city partners, schools, and community organizations understand changing demand.

  • Identify high-demand periods to improve replenishment and inspection schedules.
  • Detect outage hotspot patterns that can guide Power Angel and SolarHub deployment.
  • Provide readable operations and impact summaries to approved partners.
VLA operations dashboard showing station health and demand insights

2028 Vision

Expanding reliable phone power across 15 Sub-Saharan African countries.

VLA's long-term vision is to make reliable mobile power accessible to more families, students, commuters, and entrepreneurs through a practical public charging network.

Cities

Denser public station networks

Expand coverage around retail districts, transport corridors, universities, and community centers.

Communities

More Power Angel stations

Bring affordable charging to schools, low-income communities, and public-interest spaces.

Partners

Energy access insight

Use anonymized station data to help partners understand outage patterns and public-service gaps.