Little Sun 2022 | A Year in Pictures For the last decade, we’ve been committed to creating a world powered by the sun and we have you—our generous and loyal community—to thank for our progress. Together with your support, we’ve brought a whopping 2,266,336,765 additional hours of light to households previously living without electricity. Read […]
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Eye on the Future: A Look at Extreme Weather Changes with Florida State University
Little Sun is thrilled to present Eye on the Future, an interdisciplinary film created in partnership with Florida State University, that draws attention to the devastation caused by extreme weather patterns fueled by climate change. Eye on the Future is a video created by four artists in collaboration with their community and Little Sun. Social […]
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Here’s to New Beginnings
Little Sun started 10 years ago with the simple idea to create a small, portable solar lamp for people living without electricity in Ethiopia. Since then, one thing has become clear: Our solar products are only the first step on the energy access ladder. And this is because of a simple fact: Today, almost everything […]
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3537 and Little Sun: Solar-Powered Installation in Paris
The Parisian hub dedicated to cultural creation and progress, called 3537, presents a solar powered installation using 500 Little Sun lamps. The event takes place in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Coulanges on January 28-30, 2022 and is part of 3537’s Brûlures series on climate change. “It is an honor to host Little Sun […]
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A Safer Way to School
It’s sometimes hard to summarize all the benefits that a simple solar lamp can bring to children living without electricity. If you’re an educator, you think about the role that light plays on children’s education by enabling students to prepare for exams and do their homework after dark. If you’re an environmentalist, you think about […]
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Let There Be Clean Light
In a typical village in Ethiopia, life gets really busy before dusk. With no access to electricity, rural communities rush to get the most out of the last rays of sunshine preparing dinner, fetching water, and getting the chickens into handmade baskets hanging in the air so they don’t get eaten during the night. Nahome, […]
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Girl Power
340 million children in Sub Saharan Africa live without access to electricity. This means they are unable to study after dark, are less likely to stay in school, graduate, and get jobs that can help pull their families out of poverty. And that’s especially true for girls, such as Marjani*. Marjani is a 13-year old […]
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Meet the Little Sun board: Victoria Rogers
Victoria Rogers is a creative business strategist living in New York. From advising nonprofits to serving on the boards of the Brooklyn Museum and Creative Time, she juggles many commitments in her life and is using the universal language of art to open up the dialogue around diversity and inclusion. As Director of Arts at […]
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Little Sun and #TOGETHERBAND Launch Sunglasses for Solar Power
Little Sun has teamed up with #TOGETHERBAND to bring solar powered light to children in Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 600 million people and 65% of schools still live without electricity. For every pair of yellow sunglasses bought, #TOGETHERBAND will donate a Little Sun solar lamp to young people in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them learn […]
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