Give An Education To A Trash Picker's Child

Their homes are barely 20 square feet, to house  a family of five. There are no windows and the solitary light bulb doesn’t shed enough light to read by. The only other light in the home is from the television.

This is the environment that children in XSProject’s education program, who live at the Cirendeu garbage dump, struggle with every day. Once the sun goes down at about 6:00, doing homework and trying to study for a test is impossible. Many of the young people already have poor vision and wear eyeglasses.

When the organization, Future Without Poverty offered XSProject 20 personal solar lights for the students, we just couldn’t refuse. Made by Flexiway Solar Solutions, the lights can sit on a table, the floor, or even be hung. 

So, one Sunday afternoon last May, XSProject’s General Manager gathered twenty middle and high school students together to show them how to charge and use to their own personal solar lamps for studying and walking safely home from school when it is dark.

It took the students no time at all to learn to install the stand and operate the two brightness levels. There was a lot of excitement as Retno Hapsari handed each student his/her very own solar light.

There are still 54 students in the community who could benefit from having a personal solar light to study by. XSProject is not able to obtain more lights free of charge, but we can purchase them for $10 each. We think the benefits to the students is immeasurable. 

You can be part of this amazing program to help XSProject purchase 54 more solar lights, by making a $10 donation to XSProject today.  

All  donations of $10 in the month of June will be used to purchase solar lights for the remaining  54 students.  Thank you for supporting XSProject and the students!