🕯️ Centuries ago, people lit candles on Christmas trees to symbolise hope in the darkest season – a flicker of warmth, a reminder of light overcoming darkness. Over time, candles became electric lights, adorning homes and streets in joyful celebration.

👶 But in rural Ethiopia, many maternity clinics remain in darkness. There, light isn’t decoration – it’s survival. When night falls, midwives deliver babies by torchlight and critical equipment like fridges fail to store medicine at necessary temperatures.

☀️ At GreenLamp.ch, through our LIGHT initiative – which was recognised with the 2025 LIT Design Awards ‘Spotlight Prize’ – we install solar-powered lighting and energy in maternity rooms of remote health centres ensuring safe childbirth day and night with essential refrigerated medicines. This offers dignity for midwives, mothers and newborns.