We’re happy to announce that Little Sun is now part of the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt (Smithsonian Design) museum in New York, and is featured in a new exhibition: Energising the Everyday. The pieces on display celebrate the gift from George Kravis, collector of industrial design. The director of Cooper Hewitt, Caroline Baumann, remarked that […]
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Living, loving and learning in India
Who’s your ultimate study buddy? Someone bright, reliable and smart? Sounds a lot like a Little Sun lamp! School kids in the region of Khupti and Chinchban in Taluga Newasa, India got their ultimate study buddies in February 2016. Thanks to German Association Love-learn-live e.V, they now have access to a bright, reliable and smart source of light to […]
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Little Sun empowers women in Zambia
Girls and women all over the world are disporportionately affected by poverty. Lumwana, a mining town located in the Solwezi District, North-Western Province of Zambia, is no exception. Women remain marginalized with limited formal and informal power. Investing in women is crucial for long term economic and community development. Alexandra Frank, founder of Best Foot […]
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Hello Haiti
Haiti is a country still very much in recovery-mode from its recent natural disasters and their after-effects. One of these most heartbreaking after-effects is the abandonment and orphaning of so many Haitian children. Thanks to the generosity of a lovely private donor, the children of HELO, an orphanage in Haiti, recently had some very big smiles brought […]
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Reaching Beyond Borders
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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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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