During the finals of the Challenge Cup held on Saturday Night at the US Institute of Peace, Hand Up was awarded the Challenge Cup.

Hand Up is a web initiative to put donors and needy street people in direct contact with each other.

The Institute (USIP) chose also to make an award of themselves. This was the Peace Tech prize in recognition of the work that Khaya Power is doing to bring clean reliable electricity to impoverished neighbourhoods.

This Khaya. power regards as a great honour and responsibility to continue finding ways to empower people to generate solar energy and to distribute it in their neighbourhoods.