Environmental bottles illuminate overnights
The method seen in Facebook for a while was light in the capital of Kenya in Nairobi. Tin houses in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, in Kibera, usually a group of young people in the need of light living in nested can houses without window. The group consisting of 30 people collect used empty arm bottles from the street. Then girls destroy bottles. After washing, a hole opens to the middle of the cut metal sheet parts. The empty bottles placed in the hole then fill in the roofs of houses with water and bleach. The bottle that distributes the sunlight into the house so it sees reflectivity.
[[T]]This bottles mounted on the roof of the houses of poor families in Kibera can light up to a normal bulb, especially in the daytime. It can give light in the house when the moon is bright if it does not work many. [
With more than 1 million people live under the hunger limit, people are forced to find the budget that will separate the electricity with the income of 100 US Dollars (USD). The system is used not only in Nairobi but also in Mombasa, the second largest city of Kenya. The goal of young people is to make the system used throughout the country.
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From the architects of the project Michael Ochieng, saying that each lighting system costs 2 dollars, said that the project started in 2010. and until this day, the roof of 500 houses in Nairobi. Ochieng, who previously saved the project to the house of the poor people without paying any fee, "We attach this environmental lighting system to houses in exchange for 2 dollars because the help stops. We pay for bottles that collect poor children and make contributions to them.
The same system is used in schools in Kibera: "Most of the schools working to meet the need for education of thousands of students living in Kibera have no electricity or avoid using electricity during the day. In Kibera, a school’s monthly electricity goes average 150 USD, most of the schools that do not pay this figure cut the electricity. The cases where families who send their children to dark classes will pay the bill of the school by collecting money between them are usually not. Thanks to the project, schools benefit from this cheap lighting.