A Special Gift from Lightwave
that Continues to Shine
in Nalubanda in the Mumbwa district of Zambia
July 9, 2002
Chris and Angela Moen manufacture the incredible Lightwave flashlights that last 300 to over 500 hours on one set of batteries. They donated two dozen of these high quality flashlights for LifeNets to distribute to the people we work with Mumbwa, Zambia when I last when over there last October. They were a big hit! Kambani Banda, our LifeNets director visited there in May and told me how the people marvelled that their flashlights were still working on their first set of batteries.
Flashlights are called "torches" in the most other parts of the English-speaking world outside the United States. Andre van Belkum just wrote to me:
The torches are performing wonderfully well. Considering you handed them out in October last year, they have not had to change the batteries. And they use them a lot in these rural areas.
When I was in Nalubanda last October with these flashlight we gave one small flashlight to each family head. The larger ones were given to the village leaders. Nulubanda has never had electricity and it appears it will probably not have it our time. An average person's waking hours are about from one hour before sunset to when the entire village goes to sleep about one hour after sunset. It was that way 1000 years ago and it's no different now. But, now they have a little light with which to read at night.
On the container we just sent to Malawi last a few weeks ago, we included about ten more of the larger flashlights.
Shne On Lightwave! Long Live Longlight.com!
The two sizes of "torches" we distributed
Angela Moen
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 Planning the distribution for the next day
How the village looks at night at full moon. No different from 1000 years ago!
Chris and Angela |
