Lit!

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Ben H

Hastings On Hudson, NY

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The Problem

In the Kibera slum near Nairobi, Kenya, there are schools with teachers trained by literacy foundation LitWorld. Their students have barely enough food and no electricity: their only source of light at night is kerosene lamps. Each kerosene lamp release one ton of carbon dioxide smoke EACH YEAR, contributing to global warming, as well as giving their users diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and even lung cancer. They are also hardly bright enough to read by, and very expensive. Solar lanterns solve all of these problems

Plan of Action

Our plan of action is to provide solar lanterns to as many kids as possible in Africa for their education, health, and the environment, and as an ancillary goal--helping create a community of teens back in America that can care together about the students only an ocean away. We have been and will continue to raise funds for this through benefit concerts, bake sales, booths at local farmer's markets, donations, and grants. We distribute the lanterns through the schools, with part of the savings on kerosene from each solar lantern will go buying more lanterns for incoming students. This will guarantee that once we have given a lantern to every kid in a school, every grade after that coming will receive lanterns too, year after year!!!!

Project Updates

Thanks to participation of hundreds of kids we are moving up to our next exciting phase: Literacy workers in Kenya are delivering lanterns to a new group of students this week!
A Girls Club in the Red Rose School will be in charge of lantern distribution. Girls in Kenya are often taken out of school and go to jobs where they are not safe. Working with the lanterns will give the girls business training, self-esteem, and an extra reason for their families to help them stay in school. Boys and girls, and their mothers and fathers, will all benefit from the safe, clean light of their new lanterns!

We have raised enough to give a solar lantern to EVERY STUDENT out of the 150 at the Red Rose School in Kibera, Kenya!!!

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