Audi Environmental Foundation and Litro de Luz bring solar lighting to remote villages in Brazil
The Audi Environmental Foundation and Audi do Brasil support the NGO Litro de Luz Brasil, which aims to give people in remote areas without electricity access to solar lighting. The project in the Amazon region, scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2022, will equip three villages with solar-powered lamp posts and hand lamps, thus improving people's quality of life.
07/22/2022 – Reading Time: 3 min
Litro de Luz Brasil is a branch of the global “Liter of Light” movement, an international organization present in over 15 countries. It wants to make life easier providing sustainable lighting solutions for needy people. With its simple but sustainable solar technology made from materials such as PET bottles and PVC pipes, supplemented by solar panels, rechargeable batteries and LED lamps, it has already helped over 23,000 residents in remote regions to improve their standard of living.
The Audi Environmental Foundation and Audi do Brasil are supporting Litro de Luz Brasil with its project in the Amazon region, which is supplying solar lighting to three villages without access to electricity. “The collaboration between Litro de Luz and Audi ideally contributes to realizing our dream – to bring light to the Amazon regions, where most Brazilians live without access to electricity,” says Laís Higashi, President of Litro de Luz Brasil. And Rüdiger Recknagel, Managing Director of the Audi Environmental Foundation, adds: “Electricity is indispensable in everyday life, but in many regions of the world it is still not fully available. Especially for remote villages, a reliable power supply is difficult to access. However, electricity is necessary for people to have access to society and education – because without light, reading is difficult. With this in mind, the Audi Environmental Foundation and Audi do Brasil are supporting the Litro de Luz Brasil initiative.”
