About D.light Donation programs
Your financial contribution to the D.light Gives program will help make our lights available to low income households without electricity who have been impacted by disaster or war and who cannot purchase our products through regular distribution channels.
Your donation will be tax-deductible and will go directly to a non-profit partner organization who is on the ground in the country and will manage the distribution of the lights.
If you are a non-profit organization and would like to submit a proposal, please use our Contact form. |
Current projects allowing donations
-- Light up the district of Oecusse (in Timor Leste)
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Light up the district of Oecusse
in Timor Leste (partnership with Kopernik)
Over the last several decades, nearly 70% of East Timor's homes and infrastructure were destroyed in war and almost 200,000 East Timorese were killed or died from war-related starvation and disease.
Oecusse is an isolated enclave within East Timor that is almost completely without electricity and has a population of 67,000 people. Almost every household in this district reports that there is at least one month per year when their household does not have enough to eat.
When they can afford it, people in Oecusse use kerosene for lighting which is a dirty, dangerous and expensive fuel.
What Your Donations Provide
In partnership with Kopernik, we are aiming to completely eliminate kerosene from Oecusse and provide every household with clean, bright and safe light. A donation of $35 will provide a family with two of our solar lights: a Nova and a Kiran, and will enable these families to become independent from kerosene and have a brighter future.
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About Our Partner
Kopernik is an on-line store of innovative technologies designed for the developing world – or the ‘base of the pyramid’ (BOP) - that also provides crowd-funded financial subsidies. Through its on-line platform, Kopernik allows the most progressive technologies to reach poor people in developing countries. The goal is to accelerate development through ‘leapfrogging’ or skipping inferior, less-efficient technologies and practices and moving directly to more advanced ones.
Kopernik show-cases innovative products and provides a menu of options accessible to local organizations in developing countries. The organizations then develop short proposals explaining how they can utilize the products to overcome development challenges and impediments to growth. The public in turn funds the most promising proposals in order to make them a reality.
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