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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Little Sun’s Little Learners in America
Little Sun brightens the minds of children all over the world, sparking kids’ curiosity in art, sustainability and solar power through the Little Sun Education Programme. Our art and education expert, Jai, has created a wonderful set of activities and tools for teachers to use and take inspiration from. Kyle Kermick, a design & technology […]
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Education at Little Sun
Little Sun has, from its inception, brought clean light into the lives of children living with and without access to electricity. The Little Sun education projects are a logical expansion of this, continuing one of the core functions of Little Sun as a fun, accessible tool educating people all over the world about the benefits […]
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A lot of heart in Seoul
Welcome to Heartist House – 하티스트 하우스: the warm home of the Samsung C&T Fashion Group’s social responsibility platform. HEARTIST is the only fashion CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) store in South Korea. They provide sustainable and eco-friendly goods in a space they share with what they describe as ‘warm-hearted artists’. HEARTIST donates all its profits to the beneficiaries of their […]
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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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