By Emma Garroni | Project Leader
Today we want to tell you the story of Maurice, a young pianist from Syria who, thanks to the solar panels installed on the roof of his house, was able to start playing again.
Maurice is very young: he’s only ten years old and lives in Aleppo with his mother Mary-Belle, his father Antoine, and his little sister Jessy. Living in Aleppo is difficult: the electricity comes and goes, one morning it arrives at 8 a.m. without warning, and the next day it might not come until late in the afternoon. Often, it arrives at night, when the house is already immersed in silence, and electricity is no longer needed for studying, cooking, or playing the keyboard.
Before the solar panels were installed, Maurice and Jessy had to study by candlelight, and Maurice couldn’t play the piano anymore — his keyboard is electric — because his music was forced to follow the intermittent rhythm of the electricity. But since the photovoltaic systems brought light back to the Tabbakh household, life has changed!
The children can’t wait to show everyone the lights that are now on and the table where they can do their homework, and Maurice can finally start playing again.
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