Manila, Philippines

It’s a story of a wonderful innovative project called ‘A Liter of Light Project’. In the slums of Manila, this innovative project is shedding light on the city’s dim and dreary shanties by just using plastic bottle, water and bleach. Very interesting video that can spread this idea further and surely can be replicated in Indian slums.

Eco-entrepreneur Illac Diaz who is behind the project explains how it works. He says, when placed snugly into a purpose-built hole in the roof, the home-made bulb refracts and spreads sunlight, illuminating the room beneath. The light goes through the bottle, basically a window on the roof, and then goes inside the water. Unlike a hole which the light will travel in a straight line, the water will refract it to go vertical, horizontal, 360 degrees of 55 watts to 60 watts of clear light, almost 10 months of the year.The project has installed more than 10,000 bottle lights across Manila and the nearby province of Laguna.