Solar Lights for Students

30% MORE LIKELY TO PASS TO THE NEXT GRADE

The opportunity to read and study and forge ahead. Not just in school, but in life.
Imagine if 5th grade was your last year of school.  Age 11 and you’re done. Go to work.  In remote Haitian villages, the only way a child can go on to middle school is to pass the government exam. In MariaLapa and Manac, Haiti, we measured the impact of Luke Lights: 30% more children who received our lamps passed the year-end exam than kids who could not, with no light, study at night. After walking two hours home from school and herding the family goats, collecting water and all the other responsibilities these young souls carry, our Luke Light gave some kids the opportunity to read and study and forge ahead. Not just in school, but in life.

Without our lights, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed children are likely DONE with school. They will grow into adults with only basic arithmetic and reading skills. 
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Access to education is more than just having a school to attend. It is also having the resources to do homework, get to school a long walk away and even accomplish chores that help the family survive. Across the world, children’s access to education is limited by their access to light.  Our studies have shown that giving a student a solar light increases the chances that they will pass from one grade onto the next, stay in school and graduate by 30%. 

Our programs to enhance education include giving individual students like Ngcebo a solar light that they can use year after year and share with their families. We also create Light Libraries in secondary schools so that multiple classes of students can use the same solar light. 

We were founded on the basis of helping students study at night. This cause is at the core of what we do. So we have light projects in schools in Ghana, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Haiti. Most often when folks travel to donate our lights, they are donated to schools. 

To LIGHT the way for students 

 BUY ONE | GIVE ONE: Buy a Luke Light or Chandler Charger for yourself and we’ll donate one to a child in need.
DONATE: $10 gives a Luke Light directly to a child; $30 provides a family with a Chandler Charger.
FUNDRAISE: Start your own fundraiser, create your own project, take action and get others to join you.
Students in Haiti read by the Luke Light
Young student proudly holds her new Luke Light.

8 year-old Guerline told us she loves books and someday will be a teacher herself.