Programs

One Million LIghts’ programs range from individual solar-light distributions to group-wide fundraising, including grade-school, university, and corporate projects. Here are a just a few of our stories:

South Africa Reflection

South Africa Reflection

A reflection on South Africa,  by: Megan Aubrey-Hughes                                                                                               [Read more…]


Typhoon Haiyan Follow Up

By: One Million Lights Philippines Staff                                                                                                   [Read more…]


Energizer Night Race in Chicago Empowers Runners to Make a Positive Impact; Unique Global Race Series to Donate 14 Million Hours of Solar Light in 2014

Original Press Release CHICAGO, April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — From Peru to the Philippines, Mexico to Montreal, Spain to South Africa, more than 220,000 runners have laced up their running shoes to help make a positive impact through the Energizer Night Race for a Brighter World. The power and light company is picking up the pace [Read more…]


One Million Lights Receives Inaugural Grant from the Silver Spring Foundation, Bringing Solar Education to K-12 Schools Around the World

One Million Lights Receives Inaugural Grant from the Silver Spring Foundation, Bringing Solar Education to K-12 Schools Around the World

April, 2014 Palo Alto – One Million Lights, a nonprofit with the goal of improving lives of rural communities around the world through the distribution of solar lights, is the recipient of the Silver Spring Foundation’s inaugural grant for 2014. The Silver Spring Foundation is a corporate advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and [Read more…]


Update from OML Philippines to help rebuild Haiyan-hit areas

January, 2014 OML-PH article here One Million Lights partnered with One Million Lights- Philippines this past December to raise funds for typhoon  Haiyan relief.   We raised over $3000 in less then a month,  which provided more than 220 solar lights to affected communities. Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, was one of the [Read more…]


One Million Lights responds to Typhoon Haiyan

One Million Lights responds to Typhoon Haiyan

One Million Lights and One Million Lights Philippines are teaming together to raise funds to provide solar lights to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan.  One Million Lights Philippines have on the ground, numerous teams of people going out to distribute lights. From the OML-Philippines Blog: “We’re responding to the evolving needs of the victims of [Read more…]


Indonesia

  Personal Stories from Indonesia: Photo: Sierra Fan Reflections on Indonesia 2015 In January 2015,  Sierra Fan, a One Million Lights volunteer, traveled with One Million Lights and Energizer Indonesia to distribute 7,000 Energizer solar lights in West Java, Indonesia:  This January, I took on the ambitious project of distributing 7000 solar lights in West [Read more…]


Sekai’s Story

Indonesia, August 2013 Sekai’s story, by Sierra Fan “What are you drawing?” I ask the little girl sitting next to me, using the bamboo porch as a makeshift table. The OML and Energizer teams sit around in the brisk and humid Indonesian air with a few local families. It is only around 7:30pm, but the [Read more…]


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Lighting up students’ lives at Miguel S. Mondia Elementary School

I was exhausted right after the long trek and delivery of solar lamps this past August, when a woman tentatively approached me, and declared:  “Salamat gid, Toto, sa bulig.”Not sure what to say, I smiled, nodded and moved on.  But those words, which roughly meant, “Thank you, sir, for your help,” just capped the most [Read more…]


Ambassadors


Sierra‘s Reflections - Philippines
After a week-long distribution of 180 solar lights, Light Ambassador Sierra Fan reflects on her experience in the Philippines.

Distributing solar lights in rural India
The absolute joy in the face of a child who has just received his very own solar light… so that he can read at night… is 100% worth every penny.

Jessica‘s story - Olmoti Clinic, Tanzania
Ambassador Jessica Matthys: The solar lanterns will make a significant impact on these women‘s lives.


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