Sarah Baird And Let There Be Light International Featured On “Keeping Things Alive” Podcast

by Let There Be Light International | Dec 7, 2017 | LTBLI news and updates

Sarah Baird is the President and Founder of Let There Be Light International, a U.S. nonprofit organization addressing energy poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. In this episode of “Keeping Things Alive”, she talks about how LTBLI donates individual solar lights to families living in extreme poverty and prioritizes distribution to handicapped and orphaned children, the elderly, and widows living with HIV/AIDS. She also touches on how LTBLI raises funds for the installation of complete solar lighting systems at unelectrified, off-grid health facilities in Uganda.

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