Girls and women all over the world are disporportionately affected by poverty. Lumwana, a mining town located in the Solwezi District, North-Western Province of Zambia, is no exception. Women remain marginalized with limited formal and informal power. Investing in women is crucial for long term economic and community development. Alexandra Frank, founder of Best Foot […]
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Time to Celebrate: Little Sun Charge is here now!
Little Sun would like the world to meet the newest member of our family: Little Sun Charge. It’s a high-performance solar charger for your phone, MP3 player, GoPro and all your other small devices. As seen on Kickstarter last year, we’re now finally introducing the Charge to the world. Stay tuned on all the Charge adventures […]
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Year in Pictures 2015
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“Little Changes”, Big Impact
Back in October, CPH:DOX and Little Sun launched the video competition, Little Changes, inviting people from all over the world to produce creative videos with a fresh, new perspective on how we consume the earth’s precious resources. The competition was launched prior to the COP21 climate change conference in Paris in early December, where world […]
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“Sun + Energy + Art”: our Little Learners Exhibition
Sun, energy and art – what more do you need in life?! Coming up in February, in cooperation with the Kinder Künste Zentrum, Little Sun will run a very special exhibition called Sonne + Energie + Kunst (Sun + Energy + Art), showing work created by the students of the Kinder Künste Zentrum in response to […]
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Emergency Relief Solar Lights for Nepal
In the aftermath of the two major earthquakes and the many other small earthquakes that devastated parts of Nepal as well compromising its electrical grid and infrastructure in 2015, countless Nepalese were forced to live under tarps and makeshift housing. Many continue to live in this way and will be living this way for a […]
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A Special Pilgrimage to Nepal
Nomads Clinic Pilgrimage 2015 What better way to welcome the new year than with a story about some of our most generous and dedicated supporters, Roshi Joan Halifax, writer Rebecca Solnit and the Nepal Nomads team, who recently made a pilgrimage to one of the most remote regions on earth to share Little Sun light […]
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Little Sun rises at “Falling Walls”
This text was originally created for Falling Walls Fragments. On the evening of November 8, the Falling Walls conference hosted a festive dinner for over 400 guests. As guests arrived to sit down for dinner, they found a surprise gift at each of their places at the table, sponsored by Trumpf: a little yellow solar […]
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Singing and dancing for Little Sun in rural South Africa
This week we have a very special post for you: five videos from the children of Mophela Primary School in Hammarsdale, a rural part in the South African province KwaZulu-Natal, who were recently given Little Sun lamps – and have created these incredibly sunny Little Sun songs and dances! By way of background: The Bright […]
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