Our Story

Eradicating poverty has always been a mission of our founder, Ruha Javed. With personal experience on the influential role education plays in eradicating poverty, especially for youth, she understands the need to restore the opportunity of education in the lives of impoverished youth.

In the face of protecting oneself and securing basic necessities, impoverished youth have the opportunity to pursue education ripped away from them, thereby significantly reducing their chances for change. Noticing this issue being overlooked, the idea of 100 Megawatts was born in June 2019 - an organization working to restore this opportunity for youth facing poverty.

Where does our name come from? When Ruha was searching for a name, nothing seemed to quite fit the message. Watching time tick away and eventually getting frustrated, she sighed hard and looked up at her room ceiling, accidentally blinding herself with her room light. And that’s when an idea popped into her head! To create a metaphor with light! After all, she wanted to inspire youth affected by poverty to crank their inner light switches all the way up to 100 Megawatts. And that’s how 100 Megawatts came to be 100 Megawatts.