Bring Solar Light to BoP Worldwide

Among earth’s 7 billion people, around 1 billion have no access to the power grid and spend approximately $27 billion annually on lighting and mobile-phone charging based on kerosene, candles, battery torches, or other fossil-fuel powered stopgap technologies. These traditional solutions are expensive, harmful to health, hazardous, and polluting. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), the use of candles and kerosene-burning lamps emits 190 million tons of CO2 annually and leads to 2.5 million deaths directly caused by fire every year. Another 2.8 million people die from lung diseases each year, mainly due to inhalation of smoke in small living spaces; most of these casualties are children, owing to their more vulnerable respiratory systems. Another serious problem for BOP is that they have no access to education and health care knowledge, so the death rate is extremely high in BoP (bottom of the pyramid) area.