Peatmoor Primary School and Red Oaks Primary together have raised £1,000 for a solar powered lighting system supplied by Cricklade-based charity Lights for Learning to be installed in Paramente School, Lesotho, in a project that demonstrates how international links between schools and communities can transform lives and opportunities.
On Saturday the 19th of November 2011, at Holy Trinity Church in Shaw Village Centre, RODO will be peforming songs from her debut and soon to be released second album at a fundraising concert in Swindon. All proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to 'Lights for Learning'.
Guest appearances from Chris Davies, Songbird Chen, Colin Stevens and Mahali Selepe
Come and join us for a night of amazing live music.
Doors open at 19:00hrs
Contact tickets@lightsforlearning.org for information or call Peter/Sally 01793 751731 or Roger/Jean 01793 750844
You can also visit here for more details.
Two pallets and two crates of installation kit, weighing 1.25 tons, have been dispatched to the airport for transporting to Zimbabwe.
This is the heaviest load the charity has flown for a single project in its history and, in just over a week, a team of LFL volunteers will be joining the kit to install lights in schools all around needy areas of Zimbabwe.
Lights For Learning will be at this year's Greenbelt festival in Cheltenham over August bank Holiday weekend in the GSource tent with examples of our solar lights, portable generator and information on our products.
We are also charging mobile phones and collecting your bras which we use to pad out the solar light packages we install in Africa.
Come and say hello!
To find out more about Greenbelt go to greenbelt.org.uk
Holy Trinity Church,
Shaw Village Centre,
Swindon SN5 5PY
Click here for an online map
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Tickets are £10 each
Call Peter/Sally 01793 751731 or
Roger/Jean 01793 750844
Or
E-mail: peter@lightsforlearning.org
London based singer, Rodo, has released a charity single in aid of Lights For Learning. The song is entitled 'Light Our World' and is now available on iTunes here for 79p.
Every one of the 79 pence spent on purchasing the song will go to the Wiltshire-based charity which specialises in providing sustainable light to places of education where no artificial light exists, boosting education opportunities to children and adults in remote rural areas.
This September, a team of five volunteers will be travelling to sub-Saharan Africa for their latest project.
Here's a follow up article from the Swindon Advertiser to Jo Heaven's installation trip to Gambia where she and her family installed the charity's lighting system in two schools in and around Bansang.
"They haven’t got any electricity in the village and by having light it means that education can be continued into the evenings."
Brownies who helped to pack customers’ bags at a supermarket raised nearly £600 towards a project to install solar lights in a Gambian village school.
The girls were at the Co-Op, in Newport Street, Swindon on Sunday and raised a total of £592.90 for the Lights for Learning Gambia project to install solar lights in Ndkiri Kunda Lower Basic School.
Jokie Bakker, Brown Owl of the 8th Swindon Brownies, said: “A big thank you to all the shoppers in the Co-Op for their generosity and a big thank you to the Co-op for being willing to host the event. “And a big thank you to the 8th Swindon Brownies willing to do the packing.”
The money adds to the £900 in sponsorship which was raised by motorcycling mother Jo Heaven through a 700-mile ride from Land’s End to Hadrian’s Wall.
Congratulations and a big thank you to all.
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On 20 February 2011 Jo Heaven began her ride from Lands End to Hadrian’s Wall on a 125cc Suzuki in order to raise money to supply Ndkiri Kunda Lower Basic School in Gambia with our solar powered classroom lighting system.
Jo is hoping to collect over £1,500 towards the lights for the school.
The 700 Mile journey took her through Exeter, Yeovil, Bath, Swindon, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Stockton on Tees, Newcastle and Sunderland and ended on 23 February. Jo also raised awareness of the charity 'Street Pastors'
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A comedy based on Oscar Wilde's play, this special preview performance will be held at St Peters Hall, Cirencester, on Wednesday 13th of April at 7:30pm.
Tickets are £5 each, with all proceeds going to the Cricklade-based Lights for Learning charity.
Call Peter or Sally on 01793 751731 for tickets
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We are currently trying to raise funds to fit more lights into schools all over the developing world, including Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana and Gambia (with the list continuing to grow). We take self-funding volunteers with us on all of the projects so you know that your donation goes directly to the lighting installations involved.
You can view our latest projects by clicking on the Projects page of our website.
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