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Provide Solar Light to Displaced African Refugees
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Summary
We have given 500 solar lights to nine UNHCR refugee camps worldwide. These lights were distributed via their education branch, however, were also used as part of camp safety and security and health.
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Received $975 from 16 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
There are 54,000 Sudanese refugees in a UN camp in Ethiopia; we have already given them lights on a trial program. They are using them to teach children, deliver babies, provide security. When it gets dark, they have no other options and the lights make an enormous difference in people's lives. The lights empower, without creating dependency. It gives them a chance to get ahead and provides learning so when they get home, they can get jobs and provide for themselves.
Activities
Giving individual lights empowers women, providing security at night in refugee camps, it lessens the environmental impact of kerosene and cutting of trees and brush for illumination, it allows children the chance to read.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $975
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $299,025
Total Funding Goal: $300,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The lights will be distributed to the 54,000 refugees in the Gambella camps run by the UN and will be taken back to their villiages when they are repatriated, providing long term benefits in education, health, safety, social cohesion and environment.
Project Message
UNHCR Gambella believes that the use of Solar Task Light will undoubtedly bring tremendous positive effect in the lives of refugees precluding environmental destruction by illuminating the after dark.
- UN Staff, UNHCR official
When this Project was Updated
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 18, 2006.
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