PROJECT:
Support to “Light Up Humla” campaign
LOCATION:
Humla district
PARTNER:
Kathmandu-based renowned social worker and senior journalist, Bhirab Risal, and Humla-based social worker, Jivan Shahi, the initiators of Light Up Humla Campaign.
COST:
HeNN Contribution: $5,600
TIME:
2006
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Light Up Humla Campaign to spread the use of solar-powered electric lights in homes in remote Humla district aims to illuminate nearly 7,000 households.
Because of the use of firewood and pine resin for feeble lamps that are used for domestic lighting, the indoor smoke causes acute respiratory ailments, a major killer of children in the district which has the highest child mortality rate in the country.
The Campaign believes that solar-powered light can be a means to liberate the people of Humla from these problems, protect the environment and create new opportunities for education and employment.
The Campaign’s strategy is to exhort one Nepali who enjoys the benefits of modern electricity to support another who is living in darkness.
HeNN’s support has lit up 100 houses in Humla. Scores of individuals have also been supporting this project.
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