Meet Our Partners
LTBLI’s solar programming relies on partnerships with trusted local NGOs demonstrating a deep and clear commitment to poverty alleviation and climate action. Together, we develop and implement solar projects, refine our practices, collect replicable data and shine a light on vulnerable, off-grid communities.
Core Partners
Solar Health Uganda
LTBLI and Solar Health Uganda (a subsidiary of KACCAD) have successfully implemented 250+ community-based solar projects, including solar-electrifying 90 frontline health clinics and donating solar lights to 35,000 families in Uganda.
“Our vision is a world in which there is universal access to safe, modern energy and a robust social safety net that prioritizes the energy needs of vulnerable women and girls.”
Combined Efforts to Save Uganda
LTBLI and Combined Efforts to Save Uganda (CESA-Uganda) have successfully implemented 35+ community-based solar projects, donating pico solar lights to 4,200 families and brightening more than 22,600 off-grid lives in Central Uganda.
“Our vision is to access and build up the resources necessary to facilitate and develop the rural poor, including woman and youth through promoting empowerment, training and advocacy.”
Defeating Darkness Community Initiative
LTBLI and Defeating Darkness Community Initiative (DDCI) have been partners since 2019. 11,800 off-grid lives have been brightened thanks to this partnership. Projects include our Lights 4 Learning program and our general programming model.
“Our mission at Defeating Darkness Community Initiative (DDCI) is to meet the basic energy needs of remote, rural, impoverished community members in Uganda. Shine On!”
St. Mary's and St. Joseph's
St. Mary’s is a host of our maternal and infant health project, Safe Births + Healthy Homes, and St. Joseph’s school receives pico solar lights for at-risk students and local families.
“Our core values are: Hospitality, Integrity, Fidelity, Poverty, Sharing, Commitment, Teamwork, Responsibility. We partner with Let There Be Light to further our work.“
Think About Education in Rwanda
Nonprofit Think about Education in Rwanda (NPO-TER) is supported by Shine On Rwanda, an initiative of LTBLI. 3,500 homes have lights now. Generous donors are committed to funding this partnership.
“Our mission is to contribute toward peace in Rwanda by providing educational opportunities for Rwandan children. We are proud of our solar programming with Shine On Rwanda.”
Compassionate Mission Center
Compassionate Mission Center focuses on meeting the basic energy needs of people living with disabilities in rural Malawi. Our pico solar light projects have brightened more than 20,000 lives.
“A solar programming partner with LTBLI since 2015, we are working in our communities to alleviate extreme poverty in the Zomba region of Malawi through solar projects.”
El-Seed Art Foundation
LTBLI and the El Seed Art Foundation partner to brighten the lives of off-grid women, girls and children in informal settlements on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. Hundreds of lives have been brightened to-date.
Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation
Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT-Kenya) has partnered with LTBLI since 2019, donating solar lights to communities in the Samburu Region of Kenya. 3,000 lives have been brightened in remote, pastoral areas with limited or no access to energy. Their mission is to address the underlying causes of social exclusion, discrimination, marginalization and poverty.
Palliative Care and Education for Rural Africa
In partnership with US-based Palliative Care and Education for Rural Africa (PCERA) and St. Francis Naggalama Hospital in Uganda, the recently launched Palliative Care pilot project is operational in Central Uganda. LTBLI is exploring how donating a solar light can support patient health and safety as well as that of their caregivers.
Past Partners include Pacemaker International in Kenya and Far Away Friends in the Amolatar District of Uganda.
Solar Partnership Graduates
LTBLI has three core missions – to solar-electrify off-grid frontline health clinics; to donate safe solar lights to vulnerable off-grid homes; and to raise awareness about the importance of including basic energy access in social safety-net programming, anti-poverty efforts, and climate mitigation efforts. We are proud to announce the first successful graduate of our Solar Partnership programming.
Kisoro Elders Project
The Kisoro Elders Project partnered with Let There Be Light International from 2018-2025 in Western Uganda. 1050 elders living in off-grid homes received solar lights through our projects. The Kisoro Elders Project successfully adopted an energy-access perspective and includes solar lights in their projects. A core component of LTBLI’s model is to enable other nonprofits to adopt (and adapt) our programming to reach more people. Bravo!
Take a look at our Partner File to learn more about our Solar Partnership programming.
Let’s shine on, together!
100% of donations support communities without energy access by providing light to vulnerable families and off-grid health clinics.