340 million children in Sub Saharan Africa live without access to electricity. This means they are unable to study after dark.
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Converting to cleaner light sources not only improves children’s health, it benefits the planet.
It’s sometimes hard to summarize all the benefits that a simple solar lamp can bring to children living without electricity.
In the 21st century, no child should be left in the dark unable to study or feel unsafe on their way to school. Will you join us to help change that?
Investing in children’s education and supporting those at the front lines of climate change is one of the most effective ways of coping with our ever-warming planet.
Little Sun launched Power to Read – a fundraising campaign to bring solar lamps to students in rural Africa.
Access to personal, portable light helps refugees in a number of ways.
Kayirangwa Ndikumana* has been living in the Nduta refugee camp for the last 6 years. She is one of more than 150,000 Burundian refugees who fled their country after the presidential elections in 2015 sparked widespread human rights abuses.
In the last few months, thanks to a donation from an anonymous foundation, we have been working with our partner REDESO to distribute 7,056 Little Sun solar lamps.
Rwanda currently has the world’s highest percentage of female leaders in parliament. Still, young Rwandan women face many challenges when it comes to energy access and education opportunity.
