Lightning protection equipment, provided by the African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network, is installed at the Shone School in Uganda. The school now serves as a model where students, teachers, and par-ents from other school districts learn about lightning safety. Bottom: A community member digs a trench around the Palabak school in Uganda. The trench will hold a cable attached to conductors running up the building to a lightning rod on the roof. When lightning hits the school, the electricity will be channeled down into the trench to dissipate. Credit: ACLENet
Photo of a man digging a trench in a school courtyard with an inset photo of men climbing a ladder to the roof of a school labeled ACLENet