Solar Lamp
An
evening in the villages of Mpwapwa
Imagine this, you return home around 5:00 in the evening, but you better hurry now, because there are only two hours before it's dark.
You have to cook, clean up, perhaps patch a hole in your clothes…
Dinner is over and it's dark outside, but you're not tired yet.
You sit in your ‘living room’ and light a kerosene
lamp.
It would be nice to read something and you actually have to finish some written work.
But with this lamp it is impossible. The odor and the smoke from the kersone lamp are putrid!
No wonder that your child’s eyes are constantly inflamed.
Why Solar Lamps?
The
families at our partner sites are very poor.
Many
families live in rural areas, without electricity or telecommunications.
Light
comes primarily from putrid kerosene and petroleum lamps.
Kerosene
and petroleum are very expensive.
Millions
of such lamps damage the environmental and household air quality.
Eye
problems increase significantly when using kerosene or petroleum.
Studying
or school is impossible-in Tansania it become rapidly dark around 7:00 pm.
Rural
families work hard every day for their minimal living conditions.
They can’t improve their condition with their own energies.
Solar Lamps
There
is no putrid flame, no eye problems.
One
doesn’t have to use their money to purchase kerosene or petroleum.
In
the evening, one has clear, bright light to read and write.
In the evening, one can still do some manual work.
Update: 28.12.2005
copyright by Siegfried Popp, Staatl. Berufsschule Freilassing