Solar study lights, built by students
Our Work with Brighten Haiti
Its work connects energy access with education, health care, and locally led economic opportunity.
Solar4Schools focuses on rural and underfunded schools. Brighten Haiti also trains Haitian solar apprentices to install, maintain, and troubleshoot renewable-energy systems, building local skills alongside the infrastructure.
Brighten Haiti (Haiti): 42 lights shipped. This shipment is in Flash Forward’s own program record.
Our Impact
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About the Partnership
Why the local partnership matters
A study light is intentionally simple. It charges during the day and gives a student a dependable source of light for reading, homework, or another task at night. Brighten Haiti brings local relationships and solar experience built through its work with schools and communities across Haiti.
That local foundation helps the lights reach students through an organization already working to expand reliable energy access.
What Flash Forward contributes
Flash Forward is a volunteer-run nonprofit that designs and builds rechargeable solar study lights. Young volunteers contribute through engineering, assembly, fundraising, media, and operations. The finished lights connect that hands-on work with students who need another option for learning after dark.
Sources
Flash Forward’s shipment record comes from its own program records. Partner figures reflect these pages as reviewed in August 2026.
official website · Solar4Schools page · Solar Apprentice Program · Rotary program page
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Program record: 72 lights for three partners
42 lights have shipped to Haiti. Thirty more are allocated to partners in India and the DR Congo and are not described as shipped.
How a light gets built
Student volunteers print the case, assemble the parts, and check the light before a partner receives it.
What one solar study light costs in parts
The part list and the total per light are itemized on the study light page. Volunteers assemble the light without pay.