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Posted inProjectsIf there was ever a question of how deeply light, (and access to it), affects lives, Susie Lachal, Executive Director of the Australian NGO Teachers Across Borders and a PhD candidate at RMIT University, Melbourne, has now felt the answer first-hand: witnessing the immediate effects of how owning even one little solar lamp is making an […]
Posted inAll, Blog, Education, Off GridMany people who travel to India experience something profound and eye-opening which leaves them forever changed. For Patrizia De Chiara (pictured below), a freelance communications consultant based in Amsterdam, her profound experience came from her time working with the underprivileged and homeless children of Buddha’s Smile School in Varanasi. Three years ago, during a “In the […]
Posted inAll, Blog, Education, Off GridBack 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 […]
Posted inAll, Art, Blog, Education, Projects, StoriesSun, 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 […]
Posted inAll, Art, Blog, Education, Education, Projects, StoriesIn 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 […]
Posted inAll, Humanitarian aid, Humanitarian Work, Off grid, Off Grid, Projects, StoriesNomads 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 […]
Posted inAll, Blog, Humanitarian Work, Off grid, Off Grid, StoriesThis 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 […]
Posted inEvents, Projects, StoriesWhat happens when you give a bunch of school kids a little yellow solar lamp? They can feel that this little thing in their hands has a lot of power… …that even though they are little too, they can have a big impact on the future of our planet. In December 2015, during the COP21 […]
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