What Kathryn Cunningham saw as a volunteer at a hospital in Gambia in 2006 shocked her.

Cunningham: "Doctors and nurses really struggling to provide healthcare to the hospital because they only had 10 hours of electricity each day. This means they couldn't run the microscopes when they needed them, they couldn't do surgeries as they were needed, incubation of newborn babies wasn't possible."

So she created Power Up Gambia to provide solar energy to healthcare facilities there. Now she's one of 9 finalists in the "Do Something" award category for Teen Choice 2008. It honors people under 25 who saw a problem in the world and did something about it.

Cunningham: "The winner is determined by online voting by teenagers. So right now I'm in a frenzy trying to encourage everybody that I know that's between the ages of 13 and 19 to vote for me online."

She's already won 10-thousand dollars as a finalist.

Cunningham: "If we win this, we win a hundred thousand. And if you think of how many solar panels that would be for our project, it's just huge, so we really hope to win this."

So if you're between 13 and 19, you can vote at teenchoiceawards.com . The show airs on Fox August 4th.