A solar lighting initiative by PhoScope
October 28, 2019
Thank you to WeWork for hosting a multi-city fundraising marathon for Light Reach! Staff in six cities came up with their own lighting crafting idea, and NYC also held a raffle. We are very grateful for your support and for your belief in our mission to bring light equality. Here some photos from WeWork Tokyo, WeWork Bengaluru, and WeWork NYC.
October 7, 2019
Congratulations to our volunteer Ece Ozerdem who is a Challenge finalist and will be presenting her thesis project at PLDC 2019 (2017, Masters of Fine Arts in lighting design, Parsons, The New School)!
September 30, 2019
WeWork and Light Reach will come together in October to kickstart an annual fundraiser in six global locations: New York and San Francisco in the US, Tokyo in Japan, Mexico City in Mexico, Bengaluru in India and London in the UK. We look forward to this event, and we welcome the WeWork community’s generous support for our next project!
July 6, 2019
We continue working with the communities of La Vuelta del Dos and Los Guaretos in Comerío, and we donate portable lights and floodlights for the workshop. the community will install the pole lights in the coming weeks!
May 18, 2019
Our team holds a first workshop with La Maraña and the communities of La Vuelta del Dos and Los Guaretos in Comerío. Residents learn about light and experiment with our equipment.
April 12, 2019
Marién and her team meet again with the community of Mariana, this time to decide where the five light poles will be installed next month on the fantastic playground designed by La Maraña.
March 5, 2019
DLFNY (Designers Lighting Forum of NYC) is now our highest sponsor after the board voted to extend seed funding for (Recreo de Noche) RDN with $5K in additional funds: we and the communities we serve are very grateful.
March 1, 2019
We meet again with our partner Gustavo from Impec to refine the selection of all solar stationary lights…
and we head out to our second workshop where twenty residents of the barrio Mariana de Humacao await us… After another successful workshop, we test our new solar floodlights to help the community create landscape lighting on the playground.
The next day we join our new partner, La Maraña, on a visit to Comerío where we will soon launch our third pilot project.
January 11, 2019
Finally, we can install the first pole light … but we had to choose another location for the prototype, due to illegal dumping on the site they originally selected: Enlace and the community are working on this– to be continued.
Our team also goes to Humacao to meet with the community leaders of Barrio Mariana, and visits the playground which they are working on with La Maraña and where they would like to do a Recreo de Noche project (RDN2).
November 16, 2018
Marién is back in San Juan for the pilot project of Recreo de Noche to do a workshop on light with children at the Mini Oratorio Los Hijos de Don Bosco. We also welcome Stephanie and Lorna who have joined the RDN team, as well as Llaima, who has volunteered to film the workshop.
Despite torrential rains, the first workshop was a success: mission accomplished, and everyone asked for the next one! The installation of the pole light prototype that was scheduled with the community was cancelled, but our volunteers were able to test some landscape lighting effects with the four sample solar utility flood lights we purchased.
