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Why SIStech SolarMiniSystem (SMS) with
SWISSledlight LED Laterns
Two billion people living in the developing world rely on kerosene lanterns, candles, and single-use battery flashlights for light at night. Not only are these options expensive, dangerous, and harmful to the environment, they also negatively impact health, education, and security.

Literacy and Education Our lights provide an opportunity for children to read at night and to extend school hours. This is especially important in developing countries where most children spend all day tending crops, taking care of livestock, or working in cottage industries. Kerosene is increasingly expensive, especially given the recent rise in the price of petrochemicals, so many families cannot afford it. Flashlights are even more expensive, and candles do not provide adequate lighting to read. As a result, many children will never learn to read and will be trapped in a life of poverty. Our SIStech SolarMiniSystem (SMS) with SWISSledlights LED Laterns  give them a chance at a better life, thus education is one of the strongest pillars in our vision to light the world.

The SWISSledlight LED Lantern
The SWISSledlight  is a scientific, eco-friendly breakthrough that is making an impact worldwide. It is improving the lives of individuals, families, and entire villages by replacing costly kerosene, candles, and disposable battery flashlights with an affordable, long lasting, solar powered LED Lantern.

Environmental Impacts Global Warming
Our lights help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. A single kerosene lantern, used four hours a day, emits over 100 kg of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year.

Battery Groundwater Contamination
The single largest source of mercury in garbage is household batteries, especially alkaline and button batteries. Mercury is a heavy metal with high toxicity. The major way people get exposed to mercury is by eating mercury-contaminated food, especially fish.” After kerosene and candles, the most prevalent source of lighting in the developing world is conventional flashlights with billions of used disposal batteries. Consider the environmental and damage to humans when even a fraction of these batteries are sold in developing nations and improperly disposed of. We are committed to addressing this problem. Our products are powered by environment-friendly rechargeable batteries, which only need to be replaced every two to three years.

Health and Safety Cancer
According to the World Bank, 1.6 million people die each year from indoor air pollution associated with the burning of wood, dung, agricultural residues, and coal. That is one person every twenty seconds. The World Bank also notes that 780 million people in the developing world, mostly women and children, are exposed to kerosene lantern fumes equivalent to two packs of cigarettes a day. More than two-thirds of lung cancer victims in the developing world are female, as women are the primary homemakers. Help us change these alarming statistics by giving them the gift of clean, solar light!

Accidental Fires
Hundreds of thousands of people are injured or killed each year and their homes destroyed by accidental fires caused by the widespread use of kerosene lanterns. Help us reduce these preventable tragedies by replacing their kerosene lanterns with safe, solar light.

Malaria
Mosquitoes are attracted to kerosene light, but they are not naturally attracted to light given off by white light emitting diodes (LEDs). The reason for this is that mosquitoes have receptors which detect carbon dioxide, and kerosene lanterns emit volumes of carbon dioxide whereas LEDs do not. This suggests that people using our LED powered lights may lower their risk of contracting malaria.

Poverty and Economic Costs
A study conducted by the joint UN Development Program/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) found that rural households spending as much as US$10 per month on lighting from candles, kerosene, and disposal batteries. In some cases, this is up to thirty percent of a developing world family’s income. SWISSledlight LED Lanterns can be an engine for change. Giving needy families this lights allows them to redirect their limited resources into other areas besides lighting – education, health, etc.