Energy to Cape Verde

The experience gained in the field of design of electrical systems has pushed us to devote part of our working time to the others. For this reason we have created within our office an internal non-profit technical structure that permanently operates in the world of voluntary work and cooperation with the developing countries. We started from Cape Verde...

Cape Verde (Cabo Verde in Portuguese) is an island state of West Africa, located in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. The archipelago is formed by 10 main islands, nine of which inhabited plus other 5 completely uninhabited islets for a total of 4,033 km2 distributed over a mainly mountainous territory. Cape Verde (population 480,000) is located 500 km west of the African coast. Located between the 14th and the 17th parallel, the archipelago is commonly divided into two main areas: the Windward Islands and the Leeward islands. According to some, this distinction is due to the position of islands in relation to the wind, according to others it’s due to the type of pace that sailing boats must keep during the "Windward" navigation (into the wind).

Surface: 4,033 km2
Inhabitants: 412,137
Capital city: Praia
Other cities: Mindelo, São Filipe
Religion: Catholicism 95.6%
Language: Portuguese (official), Creole dialect
Currency: Cape Verde escudo
Ethnic groups: Creole (mulattoes) 71%, African 28%, European 1%

See also:

• Sun Houses.
  Within the solidarity initiatives, undertaken by the Office, the project for an electrical system has been prepared for a village of holiday homes to be built in the Cape Verde Islands.
• Social and health centre.
  The Social and health centre San Francesco hospital has been set up and is currently managed by the “Associazione Missionaria Solidarietà e Sviluppo Onlus - Centro Missioni Estere Frati Cappuccini” (Missionary Solidarity Association) that is located in FOSSANO (Cuneo - Italy).