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Lighting a Million Lives (LaML), 2007

Made by: TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute

To bring light into the lives of one million rural people in India over four years by: displacing the kerosene and paraffin lanterns with solar lighting devices, thereby facilitating education of children; providing better illumination and kerosene smoke free indoor environment for women to do household chores; and providing opportunities for livelihoods both at the individual level and at village level. Year one will light 150,000 lives through a total of 30,000 lanterns spread over 300 villages.