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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Solar Nightwalk – A unique experience on Governors Island
Join the event on August 3 on the beautiful island, co-created by Little Sun, Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts, and immersive theater artist Nate Koch Click here to attend The special public late night event will bring together close to 200 people of all ages for an engaging, fun, and educational “off the grid” […]
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Little Sun wins UNDP innovation competition for access to energy in Senegal!
Exciting news for Little Sun in Senegal: The team won the innovation competition for access to energy organized by the UNDP – United Nations Development Programme! The allocated 40,000 US Dollars grant will help us further our mission of empowering local entrepreneurs by providing them with sales training and solar products to sell. Thanks […]
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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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