Liter of Light Bangladesh

Liter of Light Bangladesh () is a social enterprise established in February 2015 by Shanjidul Alam Seban Shaan under nonprofit organization Lights Foundation. It provides free-of-cost eco-friendly lighting solutions to poor communities such as coastal area, hill tract area, island, slum and refugee camps in Bangladesh. It researches and innovates easy-to-make lighting solutions out of easily available materials like plastic bottle, solar panel, bamboo, battery etc., which is originally invented by a Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser in 2002. The organization also researches about bioplastic, plastic recycling, hydropower and plastic fuel. It implements the technology it innovates by giving it to community for free-of-cost. They run livelihood projects helping poor communities to learn their technology and start micro-enterprise. Their projects served around 1000 entrepreneurs including rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar.
Activities
In 2015 it started by providing free-of-cost water bottle light to poor communities. It has now turned into organization that researches, innovates and implements projects in partnership with corporates and International NGOs.
Lighting up Lives
Since 2016 Liter of Light Bangladesh started a project called "Lighting up Lives", they bring volunteers to make solar lamp and streetlights out of plastic bottle, solar panel, bamboo & battery and then distribute the lamps and streetlights to different poor communities where electricity is not available. All the activities are funded by corporate sponsorship or INGO partnerships. Under the project they provide short trainings to the local people on making and repairing the lamps so that they can be self-dependent to fix the lamps afterwards. They partner up with clubs & voluntary organizations to implement the project. This project is serving United Nation's SDG7.
Rohingya project
Recently they have come up with a set of programs in largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh where around 1.1 Million rohingya people are sheltered after being forcibly pushed to Bangladesh from Myanmar after a military genocide. Bangladesh government & international NGOs including UN organizations are giving all kind of facilities to them for a better life until they are in Bangladesh as refugee. Liter of Light Bangladesh in partnership with International organization like Netherland's ICCO Cooperation & GIZ started a livelihood project where local host community youths and Rohingya youths got technical & business training on how to make the solar lamps and sell it to market. After the project they were awarded seed fund to start business. Recently Liter of Light Bangladesh is in discussion with UN organization's like IOM, WFP & UNHCR to implement similar kind of livelihood project in the refugee camp for a larger number of youth and make them self-dependent. They designed a project which falls under livelihood, clean energy access, climate action, youth entrepreneurship.

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