Light People Dark Places – Laos
While working for Health Unlimited in Laos, I was asked if I'd be ok with staying the night in a village without electricity...... would I?? I'd LOVE it!! I love low light photography, and when you visit a village with a local charity, you are always welcome. I found the living conditions in the village quite difficult, with 3-4 families living in one house, each with their own fires burning, and families huddled around for warmth, but breathing in an alarming amount of smoke.
While working for Health Unlimited in Laos, I was asked if I'd be ok with staying the night in a village without electricity...... would I?? I'd LOVE it!! I love low light photography, and when you visit a village with a local charity, you are always welcome. I found the living conditions in the village quite difficult, with 3-4 families living in one house, each with their own fires burning, and families huddled around for warmth, but breathing in an alarming amount of smoke.
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The world’s poor spends a staggering US$ 40 billion annually for their energy needs. This equals 10 to 25% of their precarious monthly household budgets on dirty fuels like kerosene. Many remote villages in tribal India are still without electricity. Just £15.00 buys a solar light which will give a family more than enough good light on a daily basis when fully charged. Women can continue with their work, without the toxic hazard of burning kerosene and more importantly children can study into the evening without damaging their eye sight. Whenever I am given a charity donation my first thought is which village needs solar lights!