Jireh Christian AID Org. & Community Dev.,JICAOCOD
’Father of fatherless & Defender of Widows’
Preserving the Enviroment
JICAOCOD has heeded to the international call as to put strick measures for Global Worming. These mesures will defenitly preserve our enviroment if we put them in consideration eg stop cutting our trees, reducing CO2 emissions by 70% & above, affordable rewable energy procedures etc.
Why Ephasize on Lighting?
Since we work in the rural communities where there are no so much vehiclces and no industries that emmite CO2 that have brought climate change on earth. The developed nations have mostly this change!
Lack of access to modern lighting services hinders development and helps ensure the poverty trap is unavoidable. Among the poor, lighting is often the most expensive item among their energy uses.
Looking at the lighting need, it becomes clear what a distinct North / South hemosphere bias there is in the amount of light enjoyed by the economically developed northern hemisphere when compared to the developing south.
It is noted that two billion people are without electricity and another two billion have inadequate or unreliable power. This means that two thirds of the Earth's population does not have the energy advantages that the fortunate one-third currently enjoys, nor the same quality of life that such advantages offer.
In comparission, it becomes obvious that one of the best uses of a village level electrification project is to provide lighting for poor, rural communities so that they too can enjoy the benefits of artificial light to illuminate their houses in the evenings.
Fuel Lighting Consumes a Big, Percentage of House Hold Income.
Access to modern lighting products, eg renewable energy lighting sources can break this cycle. Modern lighting technologies have lower ownership costs than fuel-based lighting, since they do not generate indoor pollution, and can support small scale income generating activities, fostering an improving cycle of development and poverty reduction.
Displacing Fuel based lighting
Kerosene lamps currently used all over the developing world are very expensive to fuel and smoky to use, endangering children and adult health alike. Some communities use localized lamps like the Nepal Ghee lamps which burn clarified butter, but this is an important food source for the people and forces them to make a terrible choice.
Displacing fuel based lighting systems with the rechargeable LED lanterns means that each household can have access to lighting.
If the household has a fuel based lighting system, the rechargeable LED lanterns will be much safer and clean burning. The household will also save money using the rechargeable LED's by not spending so much of their disposable income on other, fuel-based lighting systems.
LED's provide more Light
LED Lights provide superior lighting than kerosene or other fuel based lighting.
A great example is the single solar powered LED lantern provides better lighting than 3 kerosene powered lanterns.
Rural Lighting Can Help Improve Education Levels
Village scale lighting schemes are essential to aid education efforts. Kids can go to school all day, but cannot do home work if they do not have light to work with in the evenings.
Most school children in subsistence agriculture communities have work to do during the day light hours, fetching water, finding firewood, looking after animals or their younger siblings. Hence the opportunity to read is usually only during periods of darkness and the availability of light therefore plays a critical role in the education process.
Carbon emissions
Interestingly, fuel-based lighting in the developing world is a source of 244 Million tons of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere each year, or 58% of the CO2 emissions from residential electric lighting.
WLED lighting powered by renewable energy replaces fuel-based lighting thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. LUTW (Light up the World Foundation) estimates that by replacing kerosene lamps with modern lighting technology reduces CO2 emissions by approximately 130 kg per household.
Lets support the rural communities in sub-sahara Africa to come out of the lighting need, your support is very much required. Lets fight Global Worming!
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Plot 19 Lubandi Road, Nakanyonyi Bugembe
Jinja
Uganda.