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Rotary Youth In-Service Trip to La Laguna, Honduras

Rotary Youth In-Service Trip to La Laguna, Honduras

La Laguna is a village of 89 home and approximately 450 people in the mountains above Copan Ruinas near the Guatemalan border in northwest Honduras. The village has a church and a K-9 school with approximately 99 students. There are no commercial/retail businesses, no medical facilities, and no sources of employment, no electricity and no [Read more…]


Bringing Energy to Rural Parts of Africa

Bringing Energy to Rural Parts of Africa

August 2017 By: Gando Namusis Constance, 38, (standing) says providing pupils with light in the early & late hours when the minds are fresh for revision can improve on their performance and extend their daily hours of productivity. The experience of Together for Development one of STEP-UG partners based in Pallisa indicate that lack of [Read more…]


Partnership of One Million Lights and STEP-UG : STEP4Future

Partnership of One Million Lights and STEP-UG : STEP4Future

    Update 6/25/18 We have been very busy with Tom and Reagan from Goodbulb reaching out to a number of communities within Uganda. In  a period of 2 weeks, we have been able to reach out to over 2000 people. It has been a very successful exercise! August 2017, by Kirpa Wirk We are [Read more…]


Bambalang Solar Light Project

Bambalang Solar Light Project

BAMBALANG SOLAR LIGHT PROJECT Bambalang is a remote village community in Ndop, Ngoketunjia division of the North West Region of the Republic of Cameroon, with more than 22,000 inhabitants. Only about 2% of the population have access to hydro-electricity. Among the few who have access to electricity,  many of them still live in the dark [Read more…]


Lighting for the People of Panuran

Lighting for the People of Panuran

By: Mary Elizabeth Perez                                                            June 2017         The village of Panuran is located on the island of Panay in the Philippines and is [Read more…]


Villages in Sacred Valley- Peru

Villages in Sacred Valley- Peru

March 14, 2017 My name is Tyler Su and I am an eighth grader at Woodland School in Portola Valley, California. Every year, the eighth graders do a year-round project called Capstone, when students choose a problem to research and improve. For my Capstone, I am doing Lack of Electricity in Remote Areas. While I was [Read more…]


Solar Lights: Reduce Risk of Rape – Uganda

Solar Lights: Reduce Risk of Rape - Uganda

August 2017: One Million Lights received excellent feedback from RHF after their first distribution.  They are looking for 100 more lights to help their women feel safer. Here is one  family’s story: We wish to tell you about, Mrs. Robinah Nabirye Mukyala a 67yr single Granny who has a full time parent role of raising [Read more…]


Benin Projects: Open Arms School and Cercle Social

Benin Projects: Open Arms School and Cercle Social

 11/2016 updateONE HUNDRED LIGHTS IN THE CERCLE In partnership with Bras Ouverts – Open Arms (BOOA) launching the Brighten Up BOOA initiative, Cercle Social is launching the One Hundred Lights in the Cercle (OHLC). The One Hundred Lights in the Cercle is a Cercle Social initiative to light the way towards academic success for students [Read more…]


Lighting the way to Child-Centered Development in Cameroon

Lighting the way to Child-Centered Development in Cameroon

August 2016 Children located in some five villages ( Bijang, Borrere, Eshobi, Eyangntui and Bombe) in the south west Region of the Republic of Cameroon are still living in darkness and the threat of pollution caused by kerosene lamps. These five villages are among the most remote villages in Cameroon without good motor-able road, no portable pipe-born water in [Read more…]


Project Linc- Agara, India

June 7, 2016 Students from Agara and the villages surrounding it are usually up at the crack of dawn milking the cows or working in the fields. Then, they spend all day in school. When they get back from school in the afternoon, they must make use of all the daylight they have left to work [Read more…]



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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.