To end 2016 with a sparkle we collected and shared some magical solar wishes! Throughout December we gathered the thoughts and aspirations of our friends and supporters from all over the globe. We asked people to answer the question: ‘What is your solar wish to brighten our world?’ For the last days of 2016, we […]
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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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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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Slowing down fashion at Mads Nørgaard
Mads Nørgaard, a leading fashion store in Copenhagen, is now presenting Little Sun as an ideal gift idea – just in time for Christmas. On 26 November, the store welcomed fashion and eco-conscious locals to the Copenhagen store to ‘launch’ Little Sun’s presence there, along with Olafur to talk about the project, meet and greet and […]
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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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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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Little Sun shines a light on Climate Change at COP22 opening in Marrakesh
COP22 officially launched in Marrakesh on November 7. At the opening ceremony, COP21 President Ségolène Royal and all COP22 delegates shared a solar-powered sunrise: Thousands of Little Sun solar lamps lit the room as a symbol for the right to sustainable energy access for all. COP reminds us that we are all a part of […]
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