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Provides clean
and reliable lighting to rural / tribal homes.
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Avoids the air
pollution in the homes that is generated through kerosene
lights
- a recent report by the World Bank suggests that indoor air
pollution from
kerosene results in 1.6 million deaths worldwide every year.
The World Bank also
notes that 780 million people in the developing world,
mostly women and children,
are exposed to kerosene lantern fumes equivalent to two
packs of cigarettes a day.
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Research
indicates that using LED lights instead of kerosene could
help
reduce the risk of malaria. This is because mosquitoes are
attracted to the carbon
dioxide that kerosene lights emit, whereas there is no
attraction to the white LED
light.
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Reduces the cost
of lighting - despite being heavily subsidized Kerosene
consumes
nearly 4% of a typical rural Indian household's budget.
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Improves the
lifestyle and productivity of the women in cooking and
dining in
ambient lighting
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Provides safety /
security for women walking at night in the dark.
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Helps the
children study at night
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Helps the women
and men do any vocational activity that can be done from
homes
in the night and raise income.
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Creates
employment opportunities as for every 100/150 lights one
person gets
full employment for maintaining and charging the LED Home
Lights and for every
1000 lights one person gets full employment in servicing the
lights.
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Creates social
entrepreneurs opportunities for youths to increase their
income
and have an avenue to service their communities. THRIVE will
be promoting light
entrepreneurs every where in the world and provide a line of
support, product,
training and self esteem.
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In urban areas,
LED provides effective substitution in the time of power
cuts
and compares favourably (both in performance and cost) to
other emergency lights in the market. In addition to the
poor, the urban middle class require an emergency or regular
light that help uninterrupted studies of children, and
general household activities in times when there are power
cuts.
