Why Light?
It’s hard to truly understand the power of light until you have none.
Flip a switch and our homes glow. We can read, learn, care for our children, run our businesses. Doctors can care for sick patients. We can even see each other, connect, laugh and play.
More than a quarter of the world’s population has no access to clean, affordable light.
That’s more than 1 billion people either living in the dark or—almost worse—relying on kerosene lamps or other fossil fuels that are noxious, causing families to breathe in toxins equivalent to smoking two packs a day. These fuels are also exorbitantly expensive, a scourge on the environment, and a deadly fire hazard.
Together we can change this.
And when we do, we light the world.
With our partners in manufacturing , distribution and product development, Luke’s Lights is dedicated to providing low-cost solar lighting to those without electricity.
Children are able to continue their studies and do homework at night after their chores are done.
Parents are able to work on their own reading skills after their children have gone to sleep or work on a handicraft to enhance their income.
Mamas don’t live in fear that their babies will be born at night, by dim light, with their child’s first breath filled with kerosene poisons.
Girls can walk to the latrine at night without fear of what’s in the dark.
Families are able to spend less of their paltry resources on fuel—and more on education, health care and food.
The skies are less filled with the soot and greenhouse gasses emitted from dirty fuel lamps.
Luke’s Light has brightened the lives of 125,000 people around the globe.
Clean affordable light changes everything.
Light by light, home by home, country by country, we are changing the world.
We still have a long long way to go. Will you help us? Vanquish darkness with a tiny lamp. You have never been so powerful.