All over the world people are taking action for Earth Day and the March for Science, which are both happening on Saturday April 22nd. There is a global surge of support for the progress of scientific research, climate change campaigning and sustainability education. In solidarity with this fantastic movement, our partner project Archdiocese of Arusha […]
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The Impact of Solar on Ethiopian Classrooms: Findings From Save the Children
There’s a proverb in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, which describes how one little thing can be many big things to many people at the same time. “Be’ānidi dinigayi huleti wefi.” The closest translation in English is “killing two birds with one stone.” This is how the people of Afar, Ethiopia, explained how they […]
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What we learned in Ethiopia
It’s one thing to talk about education as a cornerstone for changing the lives of people living off the electrical grid, but in order to put our words into action, we need to know what the reality is, day to day, of living without energy access. How does an art teacher in the city get by without a […]
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The Power to Read
At Little Sun, we’re always saying that we aim to have a positive impact on people’s lives who are living without energy access, by bringing them solar light and energy. But what does that really mean on a day-to-day level? What positive impacts are we actually talking about, in real terms? Right now, one of […]
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Little Suns for Nomadic School Children in Niger
The path to the Ethagas nomadic school leads you through wide pastures, which wildly thrive at the foot of the barren Aïr mountains in the Sahara region. For as long as anyone can remember, wondering caravans have come to this isolated spot to find water and life after hundreds of trudged kilometres through the desert […]
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Living in the Tanzanian Bush: How the Maasai Community use their Little Suns
In the remote, off-grid bush area where the Maasai community live, it is very difficult to find a reliable source of light after the sun goes down. Maasai people traditionally live a semi-nomadic lifestyle, inhabiting parts of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Each tribe is led by a council of elders, and they adhere to […]
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Solar ‘necklaces’ for Bangladeshi girls
We all feel vulnerable at certain points in our lives – a natural part of the human experience – but imagine feeling vulnerable every single day? For the families who live on the chars, or silt islands in the river systems of the most remote and underdeveloped regions of Bangladesh, every single day brings the threat of flooding or […]
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Safe and Sustainable Light for Girls in Afar, Ethiopia
If you educate a girl, you give light to the whole community. The PAGES project is an initiative that supports girls’ education in the Afar region of Ethiopia. 500 Little Sun solar lamps will be given to kids living without access to electricity, thanks to Save the Children and DFID. Over 16 million students in […]
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Solar Powered Light for Refugee Students in Uganda
Little Sun is brightening up the school day in Uganda! Working with Windle Trust Uganda and UNHCR we are donating 300 Little Sun lamps to school students living in the Rwamwanja refugee settlement. Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because the security threat in […]
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