Oct. 30, 2025 Light Reach received a Beacon Award – Special Citation, Social and Ecological Sustainability for our latest solar-powered lighting design project in Maasser El Shouf, Lebanon. We are humbled and honored by this recognition: congratulations to Manal Kahale for leading our program Light for Lebanon and to our team of volunteers. Our work…
July 31, 2025 Maasser el Shouf lies at the foot of Al-Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve, a UNESCO biosphere reserve in southern Lebanon. This historic village has distinct, traditional houses with red-tiled roofs, Roman ruins, and olive presses (from which the name of the village is derived). In Phase 1 we illuminated central Maasser Place around…
We are very pleased to introduce Manal Kahale as our partner for our newest program Light for Lebanon. Raised in Lebanon, Manal studied Landscape Architecture at the American University of Beirut and holds a master’s degree in Lighting Design from Parsons in NYC. She worked in the USA for four years before returning to Lebanon to try and…
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