All over the developing world millions of families will be without any light at all, while we enjoy the bright lights of Christmas parties and celebrations.

Others will use makeshift ways of creating light that
are filled with all sorts of dangers—some actually LETHAL.  

Can You Help??

  If you can, you will also help us to set up manufacture in EACH country, creating jobs exclusively for local people, many of whom will be disabled or disadvantaged. Many more jobs will be created because we will need people right down to village level, or will create revenue for local schools or charitable institutions.

Dear friends,

  Following our arrival at Entebbe Airport late one night on a recent visit to Uganda, we drove through a trading centre on the main Kampala – Entebbe road.

  The familiar sight and sound of countless people milling around the trading centre greeted us. All along the roadside people were selling their wares... fruit and vegetables, cooked food and household goods... all manner of things were available here.

  My eyes gradually became adjusted to the darkness caused by the non-existence of street lighting, and my ears were assaulted by the cacophony of sounds being generated by both the passing traffic and buyers and sellers alike thronging the roadside.

  However, what shocked me most was that the air around us was so thick with the overwhelming smell of burning fuel oil that you could almost cut it with a knife.

  Every six feet or so, a paraffin lamp was perched atop someone's pile of tomatoes or mangoes. This was not the type of paraffin lamp we expect in the West, but a simple tin can with a cloth wick protruding from the top.

  The small amount of flickering light this generated was partially obscured by the black smoke that filled the air with such density that it showed up as fog in the headlights of the passing traffic .”

  You may think that David’s experience of the appalling pollution these people have to live with every day, with its  consequent effects on health - not to mention the degradation of the environment - is bad enough. Actually, this  is only part of the story...

Why Will literally millions of families
be without light over Christmas?...

  Because people in developing countries either have no electricity or else cannot afford it, they have traditionally had to use paraffin lamps or candles—not brilliant light, but at least they had light.

   However this year paraffin and candles have DOUBLED in price! This, coupled with huge inflation in basic food prices, means that enormous numbers of people (an estimated 500 million in Africa alone!) can no longer afford to light their homes.

As a result millions of children and students
are unable to do  homework after dark,
typically from around 6.30pm

These fortunate students have found light in a local airport car park for doing their homework.

However, as the huge majority of
towns and villages have no street
or public lighting of any sort

Children are reduced to this —if, of course, they can afford anything at all.

Homeworkers can no longer work
once the sun goes down making an
already dire financial situation even worse.

Frankly it wasn’t brilliant even when they could afford paraffin, as this picture shows.    By the way, have you noticed how close the lamp is both to his elbow and the table edge?

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Act 1: Living with fumes and toxicity. You sit in your lounge while a diesel car’s exhaust pumps fumes into the room (these are not unlike paraffin fumes). In the next room, one of your family is burning a strip of car tyre as a makeshift “candle”.

	Act 2: Living with fire risk—well, burning tyres is not a bad start. This scene shows the dangers of expecting young children to light candles or paraffin lamps—in developing countries a job often left to them
	“Visualise this taking place in a thatched-roofed hut, perhaps with wooden or even cardboard sides, and containing a family’s entire belongings – what if a lamp got knocked over?  The result far too often is terrible injury or death.”

Many people have no choice but to live like this
—unless of course, YOU give them one!

  Yet even with all these health and fire hazards, people persist in trying to find ways of creating light. Why? Because it matters to them more than the risks! And if you are still wondering why, try this.

Act 3: Living without electricity. This you can enact without having the emergency services standing by! Tonight turn off your electricity. With no light at all for reading, eating, working or playing games, and no television or any form of in-home entertainment, just see how long your night becomes.

  And that was just for one night!  Can you imagine how desperate it would be for you if that was EVERY night, EVERY week, EVERY month, EVERY year, for EVER? Because that is what they have to look forward to unless we can do something to help.

"But What Can I Do About It?..."

   A lot more than you think! A donation of only £19.95 will enable us to deliver a solar powered lamp on your behalf to one of these very deserving families so that they, too, can have light for Christmas.
  

Even more than that, to
misquote a famous expression:
“A Jua-Taa light is not just
for Christmas, it is for life!”

That’s all it will cost you! Yet your simple gift will have life-transforming consequences! (To see further details of the lamp, click here)

The Jua-Taa lamp is a low-cost, robust lamp with a mighty punch, having 3 high quality LEDs which actually produce considerably more light than the paraffin lamps or candles they have had to use until now!

		Photos comparing the same family using paraffin and LED lighting—except that the Jua-Taa lamp will give even more ambient light!

   It also gives enough focused light for 3 to 4 children to do their homework, and at the same time enough ambient light to illuminate a typical hut room.

These photos show the same market stall before and after. The first looks like an accident waiting to happen……

   Light and fully portable, the Jua-Taa lamp can safely be used free-standing, hung on a wall or carried easily to where it is needed.

The Damning Cost of Fuel Lamps...

   But that’s not all. Before the recent price rises, a typical family would spend around £35 a year on candles and liquid paraffin.

   This might not sound a lot but in fact it represented a goodly proportion of their annual income. So much so that they would often buy liquid paraffin in litres or part-litres, and candles as few as one at a time.

The Price of a Jua-Taa Lamp In Comparison...

   However, by comparison the solar lamp you buy for them will cost only around £2 a year (for a new battery), making a huge contribution to their standard of living! By the way, we will supply the batteries at cost because our aim is to enable, not disable.

Harnessing The Power of the Sun

  The lamp is easily charged, needing just one day in the sun to provide enough light for 3-4 evenings, which is more than ample.

  AND you can rest assured that the gift you are giving them is a long-lasting one. We guarantee the lamp for 12 months anyway, but the LEDs will last for 100,000 hours and the solar panel has a minimum life of 10 years.

	The lamps are made by hand using recycled materials whenever possible
	The energy saving is 100% (sunlight comes free)
	Once in situ the carbon footprint is not only nil but replaces the high carbon output of liquid paraffin and candles.
	It is estimated that for every 10 huts you and your friends light, one tonne of C02 emissions a year will be saved!

“Can I choose the developing
 country for my gift?”

  Yes!* Although it would be much easier to let us choose the country for you, some of us have particular countries that we want to support.

   So you can specify on the order form which country you want to benefit. We will then send your order to an NGO on the ground in that country, and they will find a suitable family for you.

FREE DELIVERY! Your £19.95 will include FREE DELIVERY to any country you choose.

“I have friends or family I would like
 my lamps to go to. Can I do this?”

  Yes!  You can specify who the lamps are to go to by using the “Friends & Family Order Form”. 

  Obviously, we have kept the price of the gift lamp as low as possible so that you and we collectively can help as many families as possible. But if you are buying for friends or family, there are also two higher specification models from which to choose.

   So Would You Like To Help...?

My warmest regards and my deepest thanks,

 David. 

PS#1 Just think how much more you will enjoy your festive Christmas meal when you know you have helped a family in genuine need with a Christmas gift that they will value for years, and which will make a BIG and LASTING difference to their quality of life!

(*Please note: some countries may require gift, import or sales taxes paid before they let your gift into their country, or bank charges may be relevant. If so, we will let you know so that you can choose whether to pay the taxes or select another country)

PS#2 Thank you, and have a wonderful Christmas!
 
PS#3 You will also help us to set up manufacture in EACH country, creating jobs exclusively for local people, many of whom will be disabled or disadvantaged. Sales will also create jobs for agents at “village” level, or will be through local schools or religious organisations, giving them sorely-needed funds.

On the other hand, if money is tight,  would you like to make some income literally over the next few days  while also giving much-needed help to people in need?
Click here...