Litro de Luz Brasil began in 2014 and has directly impacted over 30,000 people with the ongoing support of 200 volunteers, installing more than 5,000 solar solutions. Always teaching and building the solutions together with residents of the country’s most vulnerable communities, the organization operates in urban centers and rural areas, including traditional communities such as riverside dwellers, quilombolas, and Indigenous peoples.

 

Present in all 5 regions of Brazil, Litro de Luz Brasil brings solar lighting to communities without access to electricity or without street lighting through lamp posts, lanterns, and solar solutions made from simple materials like PET bottles and PVC pipes, along with solar panels, batteries, and LEDs.

 

The organization is one of more than 15 chapters of the global Liter of Light movement, which was born in the Philippines in 2011 and inspired by the solution created in 2001 by Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser, the "Moser Lamp": a PET bottle on the roof filled with water and bleach, which, through refraction, provided lighting equivalent to a 60-watt bulb.

 

Worldwide, more than 1 million people have been impacted by Liter of Light, a project recognized by prestigious awards such as the UN's World Habitat Awards and the Zayed Energy Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for sustainable energy.