Boston's Campaign for Solar Lights to Gaza

Lighting the Way to Freedom


Our friends at Rebuilding Alliance recently returned from making their first shipment of solar lights to Gaza.  Just a week earlier, there were only four hours of electricity each day, instead of their usual 8-10 hours of black out daily.  One family showed the blacked-out view from their balcony in the Remal section of Gaza City. They explained that no one can afford the fuel to run their generator 20 hours a day — not good when you live on a high floor and the elevator is out. Some are still living in a city of portable homes waiting for the rebuilding of their houses, two years after the bombing that lasted 51 days. 


In Gaza, families celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan by giving their children clothes, toys, and sweets and especially in Gaza, parents give each child a lantern called a ‘Fanooz’.  It means ‘light of the world’.   Please give to Brighten the Future of Gaza's Children to send them a solar-powered Fanooz, a light from the world.

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