Liter of Light, Brazil
Present in the 5 regions of the country, Litro de Luz Brasil brings solar lighting to communities without adequate access to energy through solar street lights, solar hand lights, and solar internal lights composed of simple materials such as Plastic bottles and PVC pipes, in addition to solar panels, batteries and LEDs.
The organization is one of the 15 chapters of the global movement Liter of Light, born in the Philippines in 2011, inspired by the solution created in 2002 by the Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser, the "Moser Lamp": a plastic bottle on the roof supplied with water and bleach, which through refraction provides an illumination equivalent to a 60 watt bulb.
Worldwide, more than 1 million people have already been impacted by the Liter of Light, work recognized by important awards such as the UN's World Habitat Awards, and the Zayed Energy Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for sustainable energy.
Litro de Luz Brasil started in 2014 and has already impacted more than 16 thousand people directly with the constant support of 200 volunteers, always teaching the residents of the most vulnerable in the country (riverside, quilombolas, urban , rural and indigenous) on how to build and maintain the technology.
Find out more about the Liter of Light project in Brazil.
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Lecture and Q&A date: Thursday 19 August 2021, 6pm to 8pm
Small group session: Wednesday 25 August, 6pm to 7pm