Portable+Light+Project

= The Portable Light Project =

NGO Representatives:
Lia M. & Elias O.

NGO Overview, Mission, and Purpose: What We Are About and Who We Help
The Portable Light Project strives to give energy to developing countries by means of clean energy and light, the creation and ownership of solar textiles to improve their education, healthcare, and provide them with sustainable economic development while keeping and improving their own culture. Portable Light solar textiles provide energy during the day to electronics such as medical devices, environmental monitors, and even cell phones. Being able to charge cell phones may sound frivolous and unnecessary at a quick glance, but the ability to charge cell phones enables people (with cell phones) to access and benefit from connectivity to mobile wireless technologies that are transforming healthcare, education, conservation and business practices in the developing world. At night, Portable Light offers the capability to read and other tasks or even to light a room, providing greater opportunities to study and work. Portable Light represents a change from the mass-produced, single-form, hard-plastic industrial design of the 20th century to a soft design process which can be made into numerous forms with the ability to suit those with varying needs and available materials.

NGO "Bottom Line": How Me Make an Impact
The textile kits themselves (which provide 20 hours of LED light when fully charged with 6 hours of sunlight) are durable, sturdy, and lightweight, not to mention conformable due to their innovative flat-to-form design process which enables them to be a standard flat but also become a three-dimensional lantern, allowing those to bring light to task rather than moving the task to a centralized light source. The Portable Light textile kits can be created by local materials and textile craft traditions, influencing community collaboration as we not only seek to improve their quality of living but also their social situations as well. The output of the collaboration process promotes low carbon, clean energy technology and helps local economies by providing jobs for weavers, community sewing groups, tailors, and local entrepreneurs.

NGO Organization Details and Location: Headquarters and Global Outreach
Originated by University of Michigan with only a handful of professors and students lead by a dream, the overwhelmingly positive reception they received on their first project in Sierra Madre in Mexico launched them into being the influential, award-winning NGO they are today. Nowadays, Portable light isn't an organization operating from a specific location with its diverse workforce of designers, engineers, and medical doctors amongst countless others, we have a distributed, mobile energy infrastructure that aids developing countries all around the world.

NGO Job Openings: Who, Why, Where, When, and for How Much?
__Who:__ For anyone seeking to make a difference in the world (probably by donations) __Why:__ To provide light to developing countries along with energy resources they can produce and sustain themselves without being dependent on continuous foreign aid __Where:__ Contact any of our numerous constituents below __How Much?__ Any amount will do, as long as its from your heart (no, we are not accepting blood samples at this time).

 CONTACT US
 **KVA MATx** (Boston, MA, USA) Email  / [|Website]

 **Mass General Hospital** (Boston, MA, USA) [|Website]

 **Linear Technology Corp.** (Chelmsford, MA, USA) [|Website]

 **L-Tronics** (Waltham, MA, USA)  Email / [|Website]

 **IADB** (Washington DC, USA) [|Website]

 **Centro Huichol** (Huejuquilla, Mexico) Email  / <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **Maison de la Naissance** (Haiti) <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Email <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;"> / <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **TeleMedicos** (Maniapure, Venezuela)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **Paso Pacifico** (USA & Nicaragua) <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **Projeto Saúde e Alegria** (Santeram, Para, Brazil) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Email / [|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **IDEAAS** (Porto Alegre, Brazil) <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **Coopa-Roca** (Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Email / [|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **Luz Portátail Brasil** (São Paulo, Brazil) <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">Email <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;"> / <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5; text-decoration: none;">[|Website]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> **EDP no Brasil** (São Paulo, Brazil) <span style="color: #2f755e; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 1.5;">[|Website]

Why You Should Join Us...
Are you feeling worthless because you finished an entire TV series on Netflix in one weekend? Do you have so much money in your wallet that it's making an uncomfortable lump in your back pocket? Are you sick of your first world problems? Well, throw that useless Liberal Arts degree away because now you can make an actual difference in the world! The Portable Light Project is perfect for people not looking forward to amputating rotting limbs or doing the tango with local warlords, it's just a little rendezvous with various exotic countries by bringing the underrated and overlooked necessities of light and energy because God knows eating a ton of carrots does NOT actually give you night vision nor any other peripheral superpowers-- thanks for the lies, Mom. Apart from the other, //mainstream// basic needs like food and water, Portable Light offers the ability for developing countries to power their medical equipment and study at all night long while being self-sustaining instead of being under the thumb of some middle-class stay-at-home soccer mom who brags to her lady friends on facebook about how she donates to charity, when in reality she's only doing it to get a tax break. So join the Portable Light brigade, leave all your lame generic charity friends in the dust, and prepare to be the most interesting man in the world as you bring light to the world, both figuratively and literally.

Brochure:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fd2bZlyEQ91nJiknZBzQ8w2PKkM2fUZcohJueq2Rj-o/edit?usp=sharing

Our NGO Website:
http://portablelight.org/

Cite Your Sources:
http://portablelight.org/