‘Switch off the lights, and turn on your Little Sun’ said Olafur in his video message on Saturday – and so the Earth Hour at our Little Sun Headquarters began. Together with The Solar Panel Art Series, we invited guests to switch off the lights and experience how it feels to spend one hour only in […]
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Welcoming the Little Sun Foundation – Because Solar Power Means Empowerment
Little Sun is growing! We are excited to be launching the Little Sun Foundation, which is an extension of our Little Sun social business. But what is the difference between the two? The mission of our Little Sun Foundation is to bring solar energy to the most vulnerable communities worldwide who are off the grid […]
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Light and Livelihood for Women in Ethiopia with Little Sun and Solar Development
On the first floor of the Dama Building, in the north western part of the city of Addis Ababa, we enter the base of the prime distributor in Ethiopia. Nabil Ishak is the managing director of Solar Developments Plc. After living in Australia for 10 years, Nabil moved back to his homeland and established the […]
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Little Sun 2017 | A Year in Pictures
Dear Friends of Little Sun, While there is much to be concerned about today, there is also hope: for instance, thanks to recent innovations, solar power is becoming cheaper all the time, and this helps Little Sun spread clean and affordable energy to areas of the world without access to power. This year we celebrated […]
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Little Sun Sends More Lamps to Puerto Rico with Kargoe & Angela del Sol
After our success with getting the Little Sun solar lamps from Pathway to Paris donated to Puerto Rico through the Maria Fund, Solare Creative’s Angela del Sol and Kargoe’s Kenneth Willardt brought more Little Sun lamps to the region! It has been three months since the devastating Hurricane Maria ravaged the area, with 80% of the island […]
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Little Sun x Mifuko #SustainableSummer Brings 600 Lamps to Kenya
In July, we introduced a project with Minna and Mari from Mifuko, a Finnish basket company who works directly with women’s self help groups in rural villages and in small workshops in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya. From July 15th to August 15th, every Little Sun Original sold in our web shop and […]
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Santa Shoebox makes solar wishes a reality in rural South Africa
We’d like to take the chance to say thank you again to all those of you who donated so generously last Christmas to the Santa Shoebox Project. We’ve now received pictures and words of thanks back from the communities who received the lamps so we wanted to share the smiles with you here! For those […]
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The Little Sun Impact: urgent relief for refugees in Niger
In October 2016, we responded to an urgent need for emergency relief lights in Niger. We worked with Save the Children Niger to distribute 250 lamps to people fleeing unrest in the Diffa region. Save the Children has just released a new report measuring the impact of this distribution for the displaced people in Niger. The statistical evidence brought […]
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Solar in Classrooms Connecting Spain and Uganda
Students from an international school in Spain work with Ugandan children to explore Little Sun’s solar education workshops for Earth Day 2017. The Kindred Project, a student-led NGO from Sotogrande International School in Spain, came across Little Sun when three M3 students were studying for their Community Project, which focuses on finding ways to support […]
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