Light Libraries are an innovative and cost-effective solution, bringing light when families in rural sub-Saharan Africa are plunged into darkness as the sun sets. Helping families earn, children learn and everyone feel safe at night.
What is a Light Library?
For some families, the cost of buying a solar light is simply out of reach. A Light Library is just like a library for books, but for solar lights. Borrowing a solar light from a Light Library, for a fee much less than it would cost to buy a candle, is an affordable option and helps build trust in solar products. Families also experience the solar light in their own home, removing the risk out of later buying one.
Fabriola borrows a light from the Light Library in Malawi.
How it works
Each school is equipped with 20 solar lights and a solar home system lighting up classrooms and enabling a higher standard of education. Students can borrow the solar lights in exchange for an equivalent of about 1p/day. They then take the light home to study, read, socialise and dream.
