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THRIVE is founded by a group of professionals to work for the benefits of rural and tribal communities in Home Lighting, ICT, Education and Health using advanced and innovative technologies |
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THRIVE LED Home Lighting Programme
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/States_at_glance/state_profile.aspx
sample of Bihar
statistics are available
Please click here.
The LED HOME
LIGHTS can/will also help people to lengthen the productive day
for many of
their daily household tasks
or lucrative jobs by extending
the hours of light
available to them.
(see the well lighted village in adjacent image) These hours “earned” have been estimated to be worth nearly 25
million US dollar a day and 100 billion U.S. dollars a year.
Even better, the benefits will accrue to the most needy! This
100 billion U.S. dollars “earned” is equal to the entire amount
spent over the past sixty years by donors, international
institutions and governments through a host of schemes, projects
and plans.
This lamp runs on a
6v 4.5ah sealed lead acid battery that has to be charged
once in a while. This provided an additional livelihood option
for Rural entrepreneurs, who are provided with charging systems,
and for a small fee help in re-charging the batteries, and helm
maintain the lamps.
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THRIVE's work is covered in Solar quarterly download
Mr. Simon Ludlam of Ernst & Young, London (seconded by ADOPT A BUSINESS, London has drafted the carbon strategy for THRIVE for large scale light project. THRIVE invites volunteers for its Hyderabad slum lighting project Brochure
Thrive wins the World bank and IFC award on Lighting Africa on 9th May in ACCRA, GHANA
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(for winners) THRIVE proposes to train and develop solar entrepreneurs click for the brochure Please visit the brochures of thrive lights at www.thrive.in/brochure THRIVE is launches solar intelligent street lights, vendor lights, study lights. please contact info@thrive.in for details or for study lights visit us at
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Worldwide nearly 2 billion people do not
have access to clean and reliable lighting. Half of the
population of the Huge and modernizing India do not have access
to reliable and clean lighting. The use of Kerosene or fuel wood
for simple lighting is inadequate for light, polluting the
homes, more effort in organizing and finally do not help any
productive work. a village is seen in darkness the adjacent
image. Artificial lighting, essential today, will not
be provided through the slow process of electrifying our
villages projected in the government’s 5 Year Plans. Please see
the CENSUS government of India statistics that show clearly.
Census statistics
and needy. The low energy
consuming white LEDs housed in a lantern type case
powered by a
small storage battery, charged either by grid or by solar would
make the lighting the poor people homes a reality.
ing LEDs as an alternative to costly and
inefficient incandescent light bulbs, and not so efficient CFLs
was yet to be realized in India. THRIVE implemented its LED
lighting technology in a remote lamabdi tribal habitation called
Choututla in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh as proof of
concept. Here 33 houses were each provided with 3 LED light
bulbs each, which were powered by a common apparatus consisting of a
36w Solar panel mounted on one rooftop, a 40amp 12V lead acid
battery, and a charge controller.
THRIVE monitored the usage of these lamps over a period of 6
months, and studied the uses, effectiveness, and changes in
life-style of the tribal folk, and after being absolutely
convinced that LEDs were definitely the future of Lighting
systems, decided to go ahead and provided a similar model to
several other remote habitations in Andhra Pradesh, including
Peddarutla Habitation, which lies bang in the centre of the
dreaded Nallamalla forest range which is one of the biggest
forest range in India, and it was virtually impossible for the
Government to provide electricity supply here.
Over a period
of time, based on the learning's from the field and after several changes, modifications, and
up-gradations, THRIVE released its current model of the LED
Lighting System which comes in a highly robust polymer casing,
consists of a modular and state of the art microcontroller based
circuitry, and which is capable of providing over 80hrs of clean
and bright light.
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