With a click of a button, these solar lanterns are poised to bring some much needed light to Ukraine as millions struggle without having electricity.
"The three of us said, 'Gee' with the bombing going on these little lights could be useful," said Andrews. Shortly, they started assembling a team. "We have freight boarders in Los Angeles, web designers here in San Francisco, we have a Ukrainian shipping company in New Jersey."
And the manufacturer made it possible by donating the lanterns, which produce 50 hours of light on one solar charge, as well as have a USB port. "If you have no electricity you can't charge your cell phone, you're alone in dark, so these will make a big, big difference to Ukrainian families," said Andrews, noting a group of students are helping to get the lights to families.
"They're distributed by a student-run volunteer service of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and they're taking them all across the country," said Andrews, who couldn't be more proud."So what do these Catholic students decide to do? They took a big group for the first batch and they gave them out to three Jewish communities to celebrate Hanukkah as sign of interfaith solidarity.
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