Little Sun works in many areas of the world where proper health care is not a given. According to the World Health Organization, there is one doctor for every 20,000 patients in Tanzania. The recommended ratio is one to 300. In most parts of the country there is no doctor, no nurse, no clinic and […]
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Three social businesses join forces in Senegal – for clean energy and water for all
Funded by Tauw Foundation, Little Sun Senegal now works with Access to Water and Diam’O to empower female entrepreneurs and to strengthen their distribution network. Launched in 2019, the project “Access to water and solar energy for all!”, funded by Tauw Foundation, aims at training women entrepreneurs in Senegal to become sales agents for both […]
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Give light to communities in urgent need of clean energy
Are you based in the US? Click here. -Little Sun’s COVID-19 response- 100% of all one-time donations support our Covid-19 relief program ‘Powering Health’. Find out more. To learn about other ways to partner with us, please contact info@littlesunfoundation.org Little Sun’s Global Impact “Art helps us identify with one another and expands the […]
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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 ‘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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105-year-old Rwandan refugee shines on!
We may have just found our oldest Little Sun fan yet- a 105-year-old Rwandan woman! Three months after we brought 300 Little Sun lamps to elderly refugees in the Gihembe refugee camp, our partner UNHCR Rwanda paid the recipients a visit to speak with them about their experience with the lamp and how it has […]
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Music Lights Up Life! Mr Eazi Donates Little Suns in Nigeria
Mr. Eazi, Afrobeats sensation, donates Little Suns & brings back the music to the Boko Haram ravaged city of Maiduguri, Nigeria. Since their violent resurgence in 2009, Boko Haram have spread destruction and fear across North- East Nigeria. The militant group have killed an estimated 20,000 people, kidnapped 276 Chibok schoolgirls and uprooted over 2 […]
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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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