Our Projects
Our mission is to empower communities and support ecosystems and wildlife most impacted by climate change. Our solar energy projects empower vulnerable communities to leapfrog or displace dirty fossil fuels and grow their economies while protecting unique ecosystems.
These solar initiatives are designed to be sustainable over the long term, under local control. Empowered by Light partners with local people who help with installation, logistics, navigation of cultural sensitivities, and ongoing operations. Some of our projects generate revenue that can pay for maintenance of the solar energy systems and lay the foundation for further community-based sustainable development. Empowered by Light monitors larger systems remotely in real time using cloud-based technology, offering additional assistance if problems crop up.
Empowered by Light’s projects enable communities to build better futures for themselves. And they empower the protectors — indigenous people who live in fragile ecosystems and whose lives and cultures are tied to the land, water, air, flora and fauna of special places around the world.
In Puerto Rico, we continue to support critical services for communities, cooperative farms and some of the most vulnerable groups of people including the elderly and children.
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In Kenya, we've helped give refugees from a permanent refugee camp a chance to record and share their music and culture with the world and we've helped a community impacted by Africa's severe drought.
In Brazil, we support indigenous communities that are fighting to protect the Amazon Basin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that serves as the embattled lungs of our planet and is critically important to the health of our planet as a whole.
In Zimbabwe, we've supported an all-women ranger force working to protect critically-endangered species and other wildlife from poaching and we're supporting communities and wildlife impacted by Africa's severe drought.
In Columbia, we support the indigenous U’wa people who live in the country’s Cloud Forest and consider themselves defenders of the Earth.
In Nepal, our work is focused on training women to become clean energy entrepreneurs and supporting smallholder farmers and vulnerable communities around Chitwan Natioinal Park.
In Zambia, our work is focused on helping schools improve academic performance and promote a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for their students and staff, and we're installing water systems to improve safety, reduce illness and boost economic productivity.
The work we do in Ecuador is similar to the work we do in Brazil. We support indigenous communities fighting to protect the critically important Amazon Basin.
In the United States, we've worked with Native American communities to develop clean, renewable energy projects that provide cost savings for their communities and help tribes transition off of fossil fuels.
In the Congo, we've supported rangers who are protecting endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park, the oldest national park in Africa.