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Little Sun empowers women in Zambia
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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Icewatch and COP21 Paris: we can all be part of the climate solution
Throughout November and December 2015, in the lead-up to COP21, the world’s most crucial annual climate change event, this time held in Paris, Little Sun embarked on a campaign to communicate how we can all be part of the climate change solution. The campaign began with Olafur leading a Little Sun sunrise at the Falling Walls […]
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Dignity and Light for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in South Sudan
Since September 2015, following protracted forced displacement in Unity State in South Sudan, there has been an influx of IDPs who have sought sanctuary in Nyal and Ganyiel, in southern Unity State. Most IDPs are women and children who have managed to escape attacks against their villages in central Unity State and have moved south […]
Posted inAll, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian Work, Off Grid, ProjectsUganda
Energi Nord’s Lys i Afrika project and smallsolutions Our partners Energi Nord are a Danish energy company whose project ‘Lys i Afrika’ (Light in Africa) has distributed over 6,500 Little Sun lamps in communities in Uganda without electricity, where they are providing a clean alternative to toxic and expensive fuel-based lighting like kerosene lanterns. Lys […]
Posted inStore LocationZimbabwe
Alight Little Sun Zimbabwe Alight Little Sun Zimbabwe (ALSZ), a community-based trust formed by workers who were sponsored by the NGO Plan International as children, is the distributor of Little Suns in Zimbabwe. Led by Director Edwin Sithole, ALSZ employs over 45 Little Sun sales agents in 10 districts in Zimbabwe, creating much-needed jobs […]
Posted inStore LocationTanzania
Strategic Energy Little Sun is bringing clean, solar light to off-grid communities in Tanzania, in partnership with renewable energy supplier Strategic Energy, supported by a loan from SunFunder. Strategic Energy and SNV-Netherlands Development Organisation is training local Tanzanian entrepreneurs to market and sell Little Sun lamps to those in need of sustainable light. These Little […]
Posted inStore LocationSenegal
Microcred/Baobab+ MicroCred Sénégal provides financial services to the numerous Senegalese companies which are traditionally excluded from the formal financial system. Through its initial credit and savings activities, MicroCred Sénégal intends to improve and transform the lives of its clients and their households. As part of this mission, MicroCred has started to successfully distribute Little Sun […]
Posted inStore LocationRwanda
SaferRwanda SaferRwanda, an independent non-state actor and non-for-profit organisation, was established in 2000 and is engaged in several environmental protection projects such as solar energy, tree planting, and energy saving cook stoves. SaferRwanda is located at Bumbogo sector, near Industrial Zone-Next to Azam factory, Akagari-Kinyaga, Umudugudu-Ryakigogo, Kigali- Rwanda. saferrwanda.org
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