SAMMANLÄNKAD: IKEA and Little Sun reveal first solar prototypes for a sustainable lifestyle

In 2018, we were excited to announce our partnership with IKEA, with the objective to inspire and explore new ways of harnessing the power of the sun through intelligent design whilst raising awareness for the global need for energy access for all. Read more about it here.

Little Sun in Conversation: Olafur and Nabil

Watch Olafur and Nabil, our distribution partner in Ethiopia, talk about arts, energy access and global solutions in four unique videos which we shot last month during Nabil’s first visit to Berlin.

Give light to communities in urgent need of clean energy

Access to energy unlocks opportunities for better education, safety, health and a bright future for all.  Every donation to Little Sun helps us deliver solar light to students, health workers, refugees and remote communities.

Earth Hour 2019 in Berlin

Together with WWF Germany, Little Sun celebrated the Earth Hour by switching off the lights at Brandenburg Gate and turning on an installation with over 500 Little Sun solar lamps in the shape of the seven continent. The lamps are now on their way to areas without electriciy. Read more.

20 million additional study hours

Little Sun Foundation increases access to education with solar energy. In February 2019, we reached a milestone and equipped all of the school children without electriciy in Kamonyi, Rwanda with our solar lamps. Learn more here.

Little Sun 2018 | A Year in Pictures

Featuring highlights from our projects & partners 2018. Enjoy!

How Does Solar Power Save Lives?

Bringing together digital health care and solar energy in Zanzibar. Read more about it here.

From San Francisco to Nepal

The 2400 solar lamps from your solar-powered sunrise are now going to Nepal, bringing light to people who need it. We’ll keep you updated on the lamps’ journey here!

We are all #ConnectedByTheSun

In 2012, artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen started the Little Sun project and since then, our global team has been working day by day, solar lamp by solar lamp, to bring the sustainable energy and the awesome power of the sun to everyone. Join our solar mission!

Meet the Little Sun Family

Little Sun Original
$26.65
Little Sun Diamond
$30
Little Sun Charge – Solar Charge
$79
Add-on Stand
(for Little Sun Charge)
$9

Little Sun, Big Impact

“After my children go to sleep, I am now able to finish my sewing and stitching work because I have light. I am very happy with my Little Sun and all the opportunities it gives me and my children.”

Champa, seamstress, Uttar Pradesh, India.

“A dignified life is to feel pride. When Little Sun came and I began to sell them at the kiosk, it gave the whole team a desire for new challenges. We are so happy with this Little Sun project.”

Pascasie Redi, Little Sun sales agent, kiosk manager, Burundi

“Now, with Little Sun, I can revise and complete my homework. Even my friends benefit from it, because I hang it from the ceiling in our dormitory so they can see too.”

Swafdal Abdellah, boarding school student, Uganda

Where Little Sun is Making an Impact

"Art helps us identify with one another and expands the notion of 'we' from the local to the global."

Olafur Eliasson

Little Sun light is bringing solar energy in more than 10 African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana – with many more to come. So far (as of December 2018), we have distributed a total of 838,308 Little Suns worldwide. Of those, over 510,844 lamps went to areas without electricity. And that number is rapidly growing…

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