If there was ever a question of how deeply light, (and access to it), affects lives, Susie Lachal, Executive Director of the Australian NGO Teachers Across Borders and a PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne, has now felt the answer first-hand: witnessing the immediate effects of how owning even one little solar lamp is making an […]
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A Very Good Reason to Smile
Many people who travel to India experience something profound and eye-opening which leaves them forever changed. For Patrizia De Chiara (pictured below), a freelance communications consultant based in Amsterdam, her profound experience came from her time working with the underprivileged and homeless children of Buddha’s Smile School in Varanasi. Three years ago, during a “In the […]
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“Little Changes”, Big Impact
Back in October, CPH:DOX and Little Sun launched the video competition, Little Changes, inviting people from all over the world to produce creative videos with a fresh, new perspective on how we consume the earth’s precious resources. The competition was launched prior to the COP21 climate change conference in Paris in early December, where world […]
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“Sun + Energy + Art”: our Little Learners Exhibition
Sun, energy and art – what more do you need in life?! Coming up in February, in cooperation with the Kinder Künste Zentrum, Little Sun will run a very special exhibition called Sonne + Energie + Kunst (Sun + Energy + Art), showing work created by the students of the Kinder Künste Zentrum in response to […]
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Emergency Relief Solar Lights for Nepal
In the aftermath of the two major earthquakes and the many other small earthquakes that devastated parts of Nepal as well compromising its electrical grid and infrastructure in 2015, countless Nepalese were forced to live under tarps and makeshift housing. Many continue to live in this way and will be living this way for a […]
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A Special Pilgrimage to Nepal
Nomads Clinic Pilgrimage 2015 What better way to welcome the new year than with a story about some of our most generous and dedicated supporters, Roshi Joan Halifax, writer Rebecca Solnit and the Nepal Nomads team, who recently made a pilgrimage to one of the most remote regions on earth to share Little Sun light […]
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Singing and dancing for Little Sun in rural South Africa
This week we have a very special post for you: five videos from the children of Mophela Primary School in Hammarsdale, a rural part in the South African province KwaZulu-Natal, who were recently given Little Sun lamps – and have created these incredibly sunny Little Sun songs and dances! By way of background: The Bright […]
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When Night Falls in Burkina Faso
(This piece originally appeared in German as ‘Little Sun – Studying without kerosene’ in Christoph Schlingensief’s Operndorf Afrika.) Thanks to Adelheid and Thomas Astfalk from Stuttgart and Operndorf Afrika, we have this story to share with you from rural Burkina Faso. Days in Burkina Faso are bright and sunny nearly all year long. But when […]
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Little Suns for Hope: Chernobyl Children’s Camp, Switzerland
Little Sun recently received these heartwarming words from Theo Schäfer, director of the Ukrainian children’s camp in Ste-Croix, Switzerland, who gave Little Sun lamps to the children of the camp as a surprise gift of light and hope. Now let me report on the Little Suns. The children got them as a surprise on the […]
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