Bring One Million Lights to your school!
Take the One Million Lights Challenge, help kids learn how they can make a difference!
Concept: A school-wide learning experience and fundraiser with One Million Lights that will challenge students to come together and support a cause that positively impacts children’s education, entire rural communities, the environment, and home health.
What: Students, teachers, and parents learn about the need for clean and affordable lighting in the developing world and then work together to raise funds to send solar lights to students in the developing world. Your students will help kids in the developing word to study and have a better chance at fighting poverty.
Why: This experience, when integrated into the classroom, becomes a fun way for students to learn about kids in developing regions, solar energy, what it means to serve others in need, teamwork, and just how much of an impact elementary students can have on the world!
To get started: Email us at joan@onemillionlights.org. We will provide you with materials to get started, together choose a location in the world where your lights will go, and visit your school to kick off the challenge.
Download the 8 page PDF and bring to your school's Green Team or Service Learning Coordinator
 download
Download the 8 page PDF and bring to your school's Green Team or Service Learning Coordinator
download
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Share Your Light!
Experience first hand the joy of giving lights and changing lives.
 Our Global Ambassador Program allows you to participate in distributing solar lights on your next trip abroad.
See our new Global Ambassador Program for details.
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A Shining Example for Education
The School Fund and One Million Lights are teaming up to send solar lights to students in Tanzania
 The students of Lugalo Secondary School in Iringa, Tanzania struggle every year to afford the fees required for their supplies, instruction, books, food, uniform, and exams. It’s only about $150 per year. But, for them, $150 per year is a fortune. Thanks to The School Fund, an innovative person-to-person funding site that links students in the developing world with funders around the globe, all of these students' fees have been paid.
One Million Lights would like YOUR help in sending solar lights to these students to help them study with clean, safe light. They routinely rely on dangerous and expensive kerosene lanterns to study. When you replace their kerosene lantern with a clean, safe solar light, students have a motivation to study, non-toxic air in their home, no risk of burns or fires, increased family savings, and no carbon emissions. It’s a multi-faceted gift that changes lives overnight!
 Your donation of $20 puts a solar light into the hands of a student. In fact, this gift keeps on giving for years to come… spread out over the lifetime of the light, you are giving clean, safe light to a student for about $2 per year. Furthermore, our solar lights save the average family 1/3 of their annual income and eliminate 1 tonne of carbon every 5 years.
Donate a light today to a student at Lugalo Secondary School. Our goal is to send 50 lights this year and every year until each of the more than 650 students has a clean, safe light.
Read more here
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Learn More About The School Fund
www.theschoolfund.org
Matt Severson & The School Fund:
Supporting Students and Schools in Tanzania
 I visited Tanzania for the first time in 2007, after graduating from Palo Alto High School. It was after a 3 week trip to Kenya with a group of friends. Tanzania was our 3-day safari—a little sightseeing after what had primarily been a service trip—but what I encountered there was both a heart-wrenching truth and a remarkable opportunity.
Just outside our hotel, cutting the grass for the family cow, was a boy named John Medo. In the spirit of tremendous hospitality one finds so common in East Africa, John invited me to his house for tea and bread, after a two-minute conversation in broken English. I learned that this enthusiastic, bright young boy had, that very year, graduated primary school at the top of his class but was unable to continue his education because of secondary school fees. I  was deeply troubled that John was going to be denied something as basic as education, and that he would have the same exact life as his parents: stuck in the rut of poverty, unable to adequately feed, house, clothe and provide opportunity for his children.
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