Swiss start-up company LEDsafari of Lausanne has a solar lamp developed in only five nearly always available parts, and which can be put in by the population in developing countries themselves apart and repaired. The lamp is designed as a cheaper, less dangerous and less polluting alternative to the oil lamps that are used by 1.6 billion people around the world.
Our mission is to empower people in developing countries to make their own electrical rechargeable lamp, using locally available material to promote sustainability and health, develop skills and gain jobs. This also helps in creating awareness about sustainability.
One of five inventors of the LEDsafari lamp interviewed an African student who was recently trained to build his own LEDsafari. The student is very enthused about the invention because it is going to bring affordable light to his continent, giving Africans more time in the evening to study, to discuss, to work, to create.
Earlier this month (3 March) over fifty people came to Zürich in Switzerland to hear the pitches of the latest start-ups hoping to join Innovate4Climate – the local joint initiative of the Climate-KIC Accelerator, Impact Hub Zürich and WWF Schweiz.
Thanks to LEDsafari, you can try your hand at making your own DIY solar lap at a workshop at EPFL. Using only five electrical components, the lamp can be assembled by anyone without any technical knowledge and is easy to repair.
People understand how our lamp works and that it is more favorable than the traditional kerosene lamps, they are also our technology use , “he explains . Even though the Lamp primarily a humanitarian met need is the potential for climate protection.
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