Navotas City is one of the 4 major ghettos in Metropolitan Manila of the Philippines. In the Navotas City, there are around 14 barangays, one of which is Pulo, an insecure land that may disappear any time.
Here, approximately 300 villagers live without electricity or tap water. Most of them make their living by fishing or making charcoal. The children here have to walk at least two hours every day and cross a dangerous bamboo bridge to go to school.

Heart to Heart Foundation supported solar lamps to local residents of Pulo in March, 2011. Before the solar lamp distribution, Pulo people used kerosene lamps or candles to light the darkness. The smoke from kerosene lamps posed threat to health of people. And the candle lights were easily went out by wind and often caused fire and burn accidents. Especially, in this environment it was so hard for students to read books and do their homework.

However, the solar lamp brought change to their lives. In the sterile land of Pulo, a place that seemed to make even the dreams of the children disappear when the sun went down, we could meet girls that realized their dreams of going to college.
When we asked them how they could study in such a harsh environment that seemed hopeless, they did not hesitate to answer. That it was possible because of the solar lamp…