The Traveling Suitcase
News of the solar suitcase is traveling fast.
UNICEF shared information about the solar suitcase in a recent “innovations fair” in Geneva, Switzerland.
And Heather Fleming, of Catapult Designs, is testing one of our prototype suitcases in a Rwandan health care facility in August. See www.catapultdesign.org for Heather’s blog.
PRI, BBC, and WGBH presented a podcast on the solar suitcase on August 7th. The podcast can be accessed at www.theworld.org
New Hampshire Public Radio featurd the solar suitcase on a recent program called Word of Mouth. A recording of an excellent interview by the host, Virginia Prescott, can be found at:www.nhpr.org
WE CARE Solar was featured in a story about Nigerian electricity (or more accurately, the lack of reliable electricity) on a website called Global Dashboard – Notes from the Future atwww.globaldashboard.org
And a British website called Tonic.com that promotes products that “do good in the world” recently posted a lead article about the solar suitcase. The article is entitled A Very Bright Idea and can be found at www.tonic.com
Get Involved
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We welcome donations in any amount to support our Solar Suitcase for healthcare programs.Recent Posts
- SAFE in Uganda with the Solar Suitcase
- Power to Save Lives
- A Bright Light in Sierra Leone
- A World of Thanks
- The Color of Life
- Changing Lives….One Suitcase at a Time
- Passing the Baton
- Special Deliveries
- ABC News: Let There Be Light – World News’ Person of the Week
- ABC News Million Moms Challenge – Opinion: Let there be light
- ABC News Million Moms Challenge – Reporter’s Notebook: Light in Liberia
- WE CARE Solar wins the 2011 Tech Awards!
- Bringing Light and Improved Care to Somalia
- WE CARE Solar honored as 2011 Tech Award Laureate
- WE CARE Solar Suitcase headed to Somalia, Sudan, and India
- Collaborating “Outside of the Box”
- Stories from the Night
- Safe Deliveries – New Research Project in Nigeria
- Liberia – the power of light
- Father’s Day, WE CARE Solar Style
- What a difference a light makes…
- Mother’s Day Memorial – Evelyn’s Light
- Liberia “Light Up A Life” Project
- Coming Together
- Turning Work into Fun
- A Solar Suitcase Finds a Home in Kenya
- Next Stop…Liberia
- Planning for Liberia
- WE CARE Solar Nigeria
- Solar Suitcases for Medics at the Thai-Burmese border
- WE CARE Solar co-founder receives 2010 Jefferson Award for Public Service
- Gratitude
- Pop!Tech 2010
- WE CARE Volunteers bringing suitcases to clinics around the world
- 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference in India
- WE CARE Solar brings Solar Electricity Classes to Berkeley – Next Class October 8th and 9th, 2010
- Solar Energy International August workshop features WE CARE Solar Suitcase Training
- Solar Suitcases spreading light around the world
- Update from Nigeria
- WE CARE Solar joins Solar Energy International to promote Solar Education for Teachers
- Another Haiti
- WE CARE Solar, Haiti style
- Time, Patience and Hope
- WE CARE Solar becomes 2010 GSVC Winner!
- Being There
- Lighting up births in Haiti
- WE CARE Solar soars….
- High School Students Come to the RESCUE
- We Care Solar: Saving Mothers & Infants with Solar Powered Lights and Communication
- Going Global




