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Little Sun
2017 | A Year in Pictures
www.littlesun.com
We are all #ConnectedByTheSun www.littlesun.com
Dear Friends of Little Sun, While there is much to be concerned about today, there is also hope: for instance, thanks to recent innovations, solar power is becoming cheaper all the time, and this helps Little Sun spread clean and affordable energy to areas of the world without access to power. This year we celebrated our five-year anniversary with the launch of our latest solar lamp, the Little Sun Diamond. I introduced it in Cape Town at Design Indaba in March, and it has been available online since September, at littlesun.com/product/little-sun-diamond. It comes with a stand and will add a sparkle to many people’s lives. 2017 has been a year of renewal: we looked closely at our goal and on World Humanitarian Day, 19 August, established the Little Sun Foundation. We are expanding our approach to reach more of the 1.1 billion people without energy access. The foundation’s mission is to bring clean energy to school children to support their education (a solar lamp gives them one more hour every night to study) and the displaced people living off-grid in refugee camps all over the world. In November, on the eve of COP23, Little Sun joined forces with a stellar collection of artists, musicians, and activists in New York at Pathway to Paris to urge policymakers and political leaders to join the fight for climate action. During the concert, I worked together with the audience of 2,800 people to create a collective work of art, a solar- powered sunrise: littlesun.com/postpathway2parisconcert Together we can achieve climate justice and energy access for all – the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal number 7. As an artist, I believe in our collective power to co-produce reality, to turn thinking into doing, hope into action, and to change the world. Olafur Eliasson Founder of Little Sun Photo: Maria del Pilar Garcia Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Our impact to date
Little Sun’s
Global impact*
377,637
661,578
Little Sun lamps sold off-grid
1,648,386
Little Sun lamps sold worldwide
600+
African entrepeneurs joined
lives changed off-grid
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Little Sun
134,572 tonnes CO2 emissions reduced
$ 35,531,865 Savings on energy related expenses in off grid
households, aggregated
* from all Little Sun Originals distributed in off-grid areas since 2012. Based on GOGLA,
Standardised Impact Metrics for the Off-grid Energy Sector, version 1.0, 2015. 4
Little Sun’s Themes
Introduction Education
Thank you for joining us on another trip We worked with some brilliant
around the luminous sun that we all share. partners to bring Little Sun light,
We created this Year in Pictures to highlight energy and educational programs
some of our favorite moments from our about sustainability to a variety of
adventures in 2017. You can browse these countries such as Ethiopia, South
moments month by month, as well as by Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, Morocco,
the themes that fuel the heart of Little Sun. Germany and Qatar.
Art & Culture Environmental
This year prompted the creation of our Little Sun made its way to glimmering
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vision film, which highlighted just how New York City where we participated in
Little Sun
everyone stays #ConnectedByTheSun. the Pathway to Paris concert, where Olafur
Olafur also joined an amazing jury initiated a solar powered sunrise to bring
at Berlinale in February, the perfect awareness to climate leaders about climate
opportunity for a Little Sun special change and action on the eve of COP23 in
Berlinale edition, which was sold during Bonn, Germany.
the film festival.
Humanitarian Business
New humanitarian partners as well as We became a three-product business,
the newly launched Little Sun Foundation launching Little Sun Diamond in September.
helped bringing clean and safe energy to Little Sun Diamond provides a radiant glow
global disasters and humanitarian crises with a faceted lens, and is inspired directly
areas around the world, including (but not by nature.
limited to) Niger, Ethiopia, Rwanda, as well
as Puerto Rico.
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January
Following the launch of the
Solar Kids Alliance last December,
initiated by Artists4Climate and
Little Sun, we focused on implementing
solar education workshops around the
globe. We brought these workshops
January to Morocco, France, and Ethiopia to
connect kids worldwide to climate issues
and the importance of taking climate
action.
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Little Sun
Education Environmental
School kids in Morocco participating in the solar
education workshops
Photos: Artists4Climate (left) and Little Sun
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January
Solar Kids
Alliance
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Little Sun
Education Environmental
School kids in Ethiopia, also participating in
Little Sun solar education workshops
Photos: Little Sun
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January
Art & Culture
Little Sun Original solar lamps illuminating
the stairs during the INNATEX Lounge at
FluxBau in Berlin, Germany
Little Sun shined brightly with an
exhibition and pop-up store at Heartist Photo: Little Sun (top left)
House, Samsung C&T Fashion Group’s
social responsibility platform in Seoul,
Korea. Little Sun also illuminated the
stairs at FluxBau for the INNATEX
Lounge during Berlin Fashion Week.
Meanwhile in Burkina Faso, the Little
Sun team provided trainings to local
partners to help improve their business
ventures.
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Little Sun
Education Art & Culture
Heartist House showcased Little Sun in an exhibition and
pop-up store in Seoul, Korea
Photo: HEARTIST House (above)
Business
Entrepreneurs taking part in Little Sun
business trainings in Burkina Faso
Photo: Little Sun (bottom left and right)
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February
February
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Little Sun
In February, we collaborated with Berlinale, the
world-renowned film festival and jewel in Berlin’s
cultural calendar. For every Little Sun sold, Berlinale
and Little Sun brought a lamp to a child living
without access to electricity in Ethiopia. Alongside
our involvement with Berlinale, the Little Sun team
attended the Climate Change Conference in the
Art & Culture
French Institute in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, as
The Little Sun Berlinale special edition in the
well as the Ambiente Trade Fair in Frankfurt, Germany movie theater, and proudly presented by festival
- one of the largest trade fairs in the world. director Dieter Kosslick
Photo (top): Little Sun
Photo (bottom): Soeren Stache
Business
The Little Sun team in Burkina Faso at the
Climate Change Conference
Photo: Little Sun
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February
Our partnership with Velux continued
to thrive, providing lamps to Zambian
entrepreneurs to bring solar light
to their communities. Little Sun
also delivered Little Sun Charges to
community health workers in Tanzania
to help improve sanitary conditions
and overall health care in the region.
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Little Sun
Humanitarian Business
Working with D-tree International in off-grid areas of Tanzania, we are powering the future The Natural Light solar lamps developed with
of healthcare, particularly mHealth, with the energy of the sun. VELUX kept making their way to Zambia
Photos: D-tree (middle), Mark Leong/World Health Organization (bottom left) Photos: VELUX
10March
March
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Little Sun
This month, Olafur previewed the design
of Little Sun Diamond at Design Indaba
in Cape Town, South Africa. We also
focused on an education project called
The Girls Safe School Project, which
took place in Rwanda.
Art & Culture
Olafur on stage at Design Indaba,
Cape Town, South Africa
Photo: Jonx Pillemer
11March
Business
Little Sun and SOLARKIOSK brought
solar energy to Ethiopia’s rural health clinics.
Photos: Solar Kiosk Ethiopia (top left and right)
Little Sun also collaborated with
SOLARKIOSK and worked to bring energy
to Ethiopia’s rural health clinics.
In Nairobi, The Global Goals World
Cup took place, with Little Sun Original
serving as a prize for all participants.
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Little Sun
Art & Culture
Little Sun illuminating the audience during a
Little Sunrise at Design Indaba,
Cape Town, South Africa
Photo: Jonx Pillemer (bottom right)
Business
Prominent and beautiful Little Sun shop display
at Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
Photo: Little Sun
12March
Education
Plan International Rwanda and the Young Women’s
Christian Association provided 408 goats, 342 dignity kits
and 610 Little Sun lamps to support the most vulnerable
students, especially girls, in three schools – Bunge, Kamana
and Runyinya – located in Nyaruguru Programme Unit in
the Southern Province of Rwanda.
Photos: Plan International (top left to right)
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Little Sun
Environmental
The Global Goals World Cup’s partcipants were
given a Little Sun as a prize. On the bottom right
picture, famous actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as
Goodwill Ambassador for UNDP
Nairobi, Kenya
Photos: Jennifer Huxta (above and bottom left),
Emil Lyders (bottom right, top right)
13April
April
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Little Sun
Education Kids with Little Sun in Uganda Photo: SIS, the Kindred Project
14April
Art & Culture
In April, The Kindred Project connected
Little Sun Diamond has received
classrooms in Spain and Uganda. In Tanzania, its first award! The DESIGN PRIZE,
experimentation category, in Milan, Italy
Little Sun met a Maasai Community and
discussed how a Little Sun harnesses the Photo: designboom, ABITARE
power of the sun. The Little Sun team also
marched for science in Berlin, and Little Sun
distributors reached a massive 80 strong Education
in Burkina Faso! During the Slow Marathon
The Kindred Project, a Spanish student-
in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 80 participants led NGO, brought Little Suns and solar
education workshops to children in Uganda
walked 26 miles through hills and fields Photos: SIS, the Kindred Project (below)
accompanied by Little Suns (see next page).
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Little Sun
Education
Maasai Community teach their
students about solar power for
Earth Day in Tanzania
Photo: Preschool Arusha
15April
Environmental
The Little Sun team marching for
science in the streets of Berlin,
Germany
Photos: Little Sun
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Little Sun
Art & Culture Environmental
The Slow Marathon meandered through
all kinds of energetic landscapes to raise
awareness for sustainable energy - with
Little Suns charging by day and shining
brightly at night
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Photos: Diane Smith for Deveron Projects (left and bottom right)May
May
In May, one of Little Sun’s photographers,
Michael Tsegaye from Addis Adaba, Ethiopia
visited the Little Sun headquarters in Berlin.
Little Sun was also present at the LUX Light
Festival in New Zealand with our amazing
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partner MOXI.
Little Sun
Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Michael Tsegaye visiting the Little Sun team in
Little Sun Original solar lamps at LUX Light Berlin, Germany
Festival in Wellington, New Zealand
Photo: Little Sun
Photo: Tim Hill
17May
In South Africa and Namibia, 1,395
Little Sun solar lamps were distributed
through the Santa Shoebox project. The
lamps were raised through a Christmas
campaign last year with the help of
donors from South Africa and the Little
Sun community. Thank you!
Humanitarian Education
School kids received Little Sun Original solar
lamps as part of the Santa Shoebox project
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in South Africa and Namibia
Little Sun
Photos: Santa Shoebox (top),
Tim Feherty (bottom)
18May
Little Sun team member Joan made
his way to Senegal to bring sunshine to
the team in the region. Together with
Nafi, Joan brought solar power to the
jazz scene in Senegal! Nafi also made
an appearance on BBC Afrique to help
spread the word about Little Sun and the
nature of social business. Art & Culture Business
Little Suns were lighting up the stage during
Our friends from the Climate Museum a jazz festival in Senegal
in the U.S. stood for positive change by Photos: Little Sun (top left to right)
sporting their Little Sun Originals at
The People’s Climate March in
Washington, DC.
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Little Sun
Environmental
Wonderful to see our friends from
The Climate Museum standing up for
positive change and wearing their
Little Suns at The People’s Environmental Business
Climate March Washington!
Nafi introducing the Little Sun
Photo: The Climate Museum project and products to BBC Afrique’s
audience
Photo: Little Sun
19June
June
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Little Sun
Humanitarian 16-year-old Kaira received a Little Sun from IOM in Somali, Ethiopia. Photo: Rikka Tupaz / UN Migration Agency (IOM)
20June
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Little Sun
Little Sun lamps bring light
and smiles to women
and girls in Ethiopia
Light, health and positivity to internally
displaced groups of girls and women:
In June, IOM provided a dignity kit which
includes tools essential for feminine hygiene
Humanitarian as well as a Little Sun solar lamp
to 1,265 women and girls aged 15-49
Kaira (p. 19) and her mother Halima
(above) were part of the 1,265 internally in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
displaced women and girls who received a Have a look at the full story:
Little Sun in the Somali region
of Ethiopia http://features.iom.int/stories/little-suns/
Photos: Rikka Tupaz / UN Migration
21June
For International Day of Environment on
June 5, the Little Sun team participated in
the cleaning of beaches in Senegal to raise
awareness of environmental issues.
In Europe, Olafur and the Little Sun team
made their way to Copenhagen, Denmark
to participate in the Africa Energy Forum,
which is the global investment meeting
for Africa’s power, energy & infrastructure
sectors.
At State of Design Berlin from June Business Olafur and Samuel from the Little Sun team attending
1st-4th, visitors could follow the evolution the Africa Energy Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark
Photos: EnergyNet Limited
of Little Sun’s products since 2012 in an
exhibition on social design.
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Little Sun
Art & Culture
Little Sun’s evolution at
State of Design Berlin exhibition, Germany Environmental
Photo: Little Sun Cleaning beaches at a Seneco
Africa event, celebrating World
Environment and Ocean Day
Photos: H2O le Photoartiste
22July
July
In Burkina Faso, women’s groups
started selling solar lamps to replace
kerosene lamps and torches with clean
energy. Thanks to Plan Burkina Faso for
the support! Also in July, the first Little
Education Business
Sun Diamonds arrived in Tanzania. In
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The first Little Sun Diamonds made their way
the US, Little Sun worked with the to Tanzania! Photos: Right To Play
Little Sun
unique Usdan Summer Camp for the
Arts in New York. Little Sun advocate
Andre Feliciano encouraged the kids
to develop their own ideas for the
future, working with existing materials
and reflecting upon their own usage of
resources.
Business
Women group sells Little Sun solar lamps in
Burkina Faso to replace kerosene lamps
Photos: Plan International Burkina Faso
23July Little Sun x Mifuko
Sustainable Summer
We also collaborated with Mifuko, a
Finnish basket company who works with
women’s groups in rural Kenya. During
summer months, every Little Sun Original
sold in our web shop and every 20 euros
spent in Mifuko’s online shop brought
one solar-powered Little Sun Original to a
woman of the Mifuko self-help group. With
your help, we were able to get 600 lamps
to Kenya!
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Little Sun
Business Environmental
The Mifuko self-help group in Kenya lives in
rural communities in the Machakos region
and craft Mifuko’s beautiful Kiondo baskets.
Photos: Little Sun (left), Heléne Wikström / Mifuko (right)
24July
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Little Sun
Art & Culture Environmental
During Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts in
New York, kids were able to create their very
own Sunlight Graffiti and participated in
solar education workshops.
Photos: André Feliciano
25August
August
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Little Sun
Hassna smiles with Little Sun Photo: Seifu Assegid for Save the Children
26August
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Little Sun
Art & Culture
Behind the scenes of our vision film
Photos: Little Sun, Studio Olafur Eliasson
27August
Art & Culture
Little Sun was thrilled to announce the
Solare Creative’s Angela del Sol took Little Suns with her to Burning Man,
launch of the Little Sun Foundation her goal was to explore how humans are #connectedbythesun through art
in August, a charitable organization
Photo: Tyler Goldflower
working to bring solar lamps to vulnerable
communities and solar workshops to
children worldwide.
We also released our new vision film,
where we highlighted just how everyone
stays #ConnectedByTheSun, focusing on
stories from the cities of Berlin, Limpopo
and Johannesburg (see p.27).
Watch it here:
https://vimeo.com/228204096
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Little Sun
On the right you can see the beautiful
pictures of Little Sun at earthly events
like the Oregon Solar Eclipse as well as
Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada.
28September
September
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Little Sun
Little Sun Diamond shining bright in South Africa Photo: Thabo Metsing
29September
The month of September was fully
focused on the launch of our new
product, the luminous solar jewel
Little Sun Diamond.
The Little Sun Diamond was introduced
for our 5-year anniversary. It’s pocket-
sized, comes with a built in stand and
radiates a sparkling glow. From a launch
in our office in Berlin to our US launch
at MoMa Design Store, we introduced
the world to the newest addition to our
sparkling family. Later this month, we
visited London for London Design Week,
presented the Diamond and had our
famous Sunlight Graffiti booth at
darc room, a creative lighting exhibition.
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Little Sun
Art & Culture Business
Top: Launch of the Little Sun Diamond in our headquarters in
Berlin
Bottom: Olafur with Chelsea Clinton, Aggie Gund, Sarah Arison
and Klaus Biesenbach (left), Julie and Andrea getting the set up
ready at MoMa Design Store in the U.S
Photos: Little Sun
30September
Art & Culture Business
Olafur and Klaus Biesenbach
introducing the Little Sun Diamond
at MoMa Design Store (left), Little
Sun’s Eva with our friends from
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REVIVE (right)
Photos: Little Sun
Little Sun
Art & Culture Business
Olafur and UNDP’s Goodwill
Ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
(left) and with Global Goals World
Cup’s participants (right)
Photos: Little Sun
31September
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Little Sun
Art & Culture
We presented the Little Sun Diamond and had our
famous Sunlight Graffiti booth at darc room, where
participants were able to play around with our
Little Sun Original.
Photos: Little Sun (left), mondo*arc (right)
32September
The last trip of the month for Little Sun was
to Toronto, Canada for another Sunlight
Graffiti booth at the first edition of EDIT,
The Expo for Design, Innovation and
Technology. We also received
Power to Read reports for education from
Ethiopia. Our project “Power to Read”
brought solar light to schoolchildren
in communities without access to
energy. Following the distribution, the
students learned about the importance
of sustainable energy and how to use
their lamp. The survey conducted shows Education
the improvement of students’ reading
Communities and beneficiaries
performance. And we were thrilled gathered at Little Sun solar lamps
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to announce a new partnership with distribution in Wondata and Yibab
elementary schools
Energy4Impact in Senegal!
Little Sun
Photos: Save the Children Ethiopia
(top left)
Business
Namory from the Little Sun Senegal
team with our partners from
Energy4Impact
Photo: Little Sun (top right)
Art & Culture
Little Sun Diamond soaking up some sun
(bottom left) and our nice Little Sun display at
EDIT (bottom right) in Toronto, Canada
Photos: Little Sun
33October
Art & Culture
The Solar Panel Art Series (top), Abou from
The Beam Magazine’s team and Little Sun’s
Felix and Romane at dena energy Congress
presenting the artworks in Berlin, Germany
(bottom right)
October Photos: Little Sun
In October, Little Sun collaborated with The Beam
Magazine to light up the Solar Panel Art Series,
which took place in Berlin. Proceeds from selling the
artworks will support the Little Sun Foundation!
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In Senegal, we were involved in the International Fair
for Renewable Energy, where the team worked to
Little Sun
promote our solar products.
Business
Little Sun Senegal team’s Namory and Joan
at their booth during during International
Fair for Renewable Energy
Photos: Little Sun
34November
November
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Little Sun
One the eve of the Climate
Conference COP 23 opening in Bonn,
Little Sun and Olafur Eliasson joined
forces with a spectacular collection
of artists, musicians, innovators,
academics and activists in New York,
to urge policymakers and political
leaders to join the fight for
climate action.
Environmental Art & Culture
Solar-powered sunrise at Carnegie Hall
in New York City, U.S.
Photo: Joshua Hammond
35November
Environmental Art & Culture
Top: Olafur backstage with Tanya Tagaq (left), Patti Smith and
Cat Power (middle), all artists on stage (right)
Bottom: Stunning solar-powered sunrise choreographed by Olafur
Photos: Kevin Kane/Getty Images for UNDP
(bottom right and top right), Steven Sebring
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Little Sun
Pathway to Paris
Olafur turned the whole audience at
Carnegie Hall into artists by creating an
interactive artwork with all
2,800 attendants. He led a choreography
that motioned the audience to hold
up Little Suns, resulting in a visually
striking “solar-powered sunrise”, raising
awareness for Sustainable Development
Goal 7, affordable and clean energy.
The lamps used were then donated to
communities affected by natural disaster
in Puerto Rico, through the Maria Fund.
36November
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Little Sun
Little Sun Garden illuminating the Solar Art Qatar Festival Photo: Ben Barbour
37November
For the first solar festival in Qatar, Little
Sun team member Eva organized
workshops on sustainability and
solar energy. A Little Sun garden also
illuminated the Doha Fire Station.
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Little Sun
Education Art & Culture
Alongside the radiant Little Sun Garden,
school kids also had the opportunity to
discover our solar education workshops
and to enjoy a Sunlight Graffiti booth to
experience the power of the sun
Photos: QS Tech (left and middle right),
Ignacio Barba (top and bottom right)
38December
December
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Little Sun
Following the donation from Pathway to Paris, the 2,800 lamps
made their way to Puerto Rico! Alongside the Maria Fund
donations from Pathway to Paris, Little Sun advocate
Angela del Sol and New York-based company Kargoe also brought
lamps to Puerto Rico. When Little Suns arrived, they were received
with enthusiasm, and the communities expressed growing
curiosity in regards to clean energy solutions.
And finally, the first Little Sun Diamonds arrived in Burkina Faso!
Humanitarian
Solare Creative’s Angela del Sol and Kargoe’s
Kenneth Willardt brought more Little Sun
lamps to Puerto Rico
Photo: Kenneth Willardt
39December
Solar power and
light to the
communities
affected by
Hurricane Maria
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Little Sun
Humanitarian
Distribution of Little Suns in the mountains of
Añasco and Utuado
Photo: Kenneth Willardt (top)
Humanitarian
Bloomberg Philanthropies joined the effort
to support areas affected by recent national
disasters, creating 10,000 hygiene relief kits
– including solar-powered Little Suns that
were distributed to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin
Islands and Florida.
Photo: Bloomberg Philanthropies
40Around the globe
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Little Sun
Little Sun Thank you to everyone, near and far, who have done such a
around the tremendous job this year, furthering Little Sun’s solar mission
to bring energy access to all. Special thanks to all the interns,
globe solar advocates and fans all around the world.
42Keep shining and see you on the other side in 2018! We are all #ConnectedByTheSun www.littlesun.com /ilovelittlesun @LittleSun littlesunenergy www.littlesun.com
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