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Project “First Ray of Light” Delivers Hope
A simple idea by the chief executive of a
California electronics company is bringing hope across the ocean to countless desolate and underdeveloped regions of Pakistan.
Pervaiz Lodhie’s aim was to provide through LED lighting and solar panels—products that his two companies manufacture—real hope of improved quality of life to villagers throughout the remote areas of the southeastern nation.
Lodhie is CEO and founder of LEDtronics®, a leading–edge LED lighting solutions provider in Torrance, California, as well as of Karachi, Pakistan based Shaan Technologies, which provides assembly and contract manufacturing to Original Equipment Manufacturers and, recently, a maker of photovoltaic solar panels.
“There was an urgent need for access to safe lighting that would replace the predominantly used Kerosene lamps, which are toxic, contribute to potential fire hazard and provide very poor light at a high cost,” Lodhie says. “We felt we had a better solution.”
He and ShaanTech jointly began a vigorous campaign
of distributing a package that consisted of a solar panel and an LED lamp to those villagers in the rural areas of Pakistan. With Pehli Kiran—The First Ray of Light—Foundation he established, Lodhie has been able to deliver hope to these villagers and, especially, the children.
The solar panels and LED lamps together deliver a quality light that is sustainable, safe and nontoxic as well as environmentally friendly. All of these positives are delivered with significant cost savings. More importantly, these gifts allow villagers to work longer hours so they can create products they need to sell to ensure their economic future.
For the children, it provides increased opportunities to education, an additional tool to expand literacy to all in the village—young and old.
Lodhie’s foundation and his ShaanTech facility employees have recently joined in partnership with the UNDP—United Nations Development Program—to further expand throughout Pakistan the “First Ray of Light” goal of bringing safe and cost–effective light to every village.
Literacy, education, health facilities and economic stability all benefit from the product of a simple idea—combining solar–generated power with efficient LED lighting.
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