50 Lanterns

50 Lanterns, a Minnesota-based nonprofit organization that partners with established humanitarian groups to provide disadvantaged communities with renewable energy sources such as solar-power lights, lanterns and water pumps. Click here to visit their website.

why Solar Energy?

More than a third of the world's people live without access to electricity. Generally, these are the poorest and least educated people. During daylight hours, they are busy working small jobs to earn money or raise crops. But when the sun goes down, it’s too dark to learn to read, to teach children, or to work on small practical projects that can help earn money.

Solar energy can play a critical role in lifting people out of extreme poverty, providing them with dependable, clean, safe and renewable sources for household energy and community development.

One solar lantern can provide a school, clinic, or family with a sustainable lighting source for at least ten years or longer. During that time, dozens of children can learn to read. Women can support themselves with a home-based craft or small business. And clinics may save the lives of thousands of patients.

OUR COMMITMENT

When you choose Maravonda Coffee for your fundraiser, you are choosing a company that goes beyond in just purchasing quality green coffee. Maravonda partners with 50 lanterns in providing much needed sustainable solar lighting sources for coffee farmers, their children, their education and our environment.

Solar Energy

• Redirects family spending from kerosene to food, clothing, medicine or school fees;

• Provides light for income-generating activities like sewing or weaving;

• Allows children to read and study in the evenings;

• Reduces deforestation caused by burning wood or charcoal;

• Eliminates both the health and safety risks of kerosene lighting;

• Provides a dependable, non-polluting source of light for many years.