Fundraising for subsequent solar villages proved challenging. However, a presentation by the project leader garnered support from Hela Sarana and APSL-UK. Finding a suitable location in Jaffna or Batticaloa proved difficult. Following a community request from Nochchiya, a village facing water scarcity and human-elephant conflict, and supported by 104 signatures, Nochchiya was selected as the site for the third solar village project.

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​In this village community, there are two water pumping systems with electricity from the national grid. Part of the revenue from the CEB was used to pay the electricity bills for water pumping and purification. Since the surrounding villages had chronic kidney disease, the Nochchiya water purification centre started selling clean drinking water to about eight surrounding villages, for a nominal fee. These two methods accumulated considerable revenue in the VDC account, and the committee started micro-credit facilities to villagers to start new development projects. At present the VDC has improved their income and saved over Rs 60 Lakhs in their account. Out of these Rs 50 Lakhs has been deposited in a fixed deposit to earn further income.”