Small-Business Entrepreneurs Lighting Up India's Slums
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Let there be Light: The Australian entrepreneurs who have set their sights on getting power into India's slums How Delhi is moving towards becoming a global capital for trade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQzs4izA27Y Bollywood: The world's biggest movie industry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT8htr21f-Q How India's Silicon Valley Became Its Suicide Capital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGZHxxT4g Subscribe to Journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=68671 India's economy is growing faster than China's, yet a third of its population still live without electricity. But now a small company Pollinate Energy are selling solar-powered lights to India's slum-dwellers. In the absence of power, every night the air in the sprawling shanty-towns of India's cities fill with the dense smoke of kerosene used for lighting and cooking. For the slum-dwellers, the smoke is a killer - equivalent to consuming up to two packs of cigarettes a day. "We basically decided that if we wanted to solve this huge problem it had to be a business solution. You just can't give away 400 million lights", says Kat Kimmorley, co-founder of Pollinate Energy. Pollinate's simple and safe solution comes in the form of a portable solar-powered light, in which the poorest can invest in a brighter future. Their demand is now giving work to Indians like Latha, a young mother who sells the lamps to slum dwellers: "My status has increased. My life has changed", she says. ABC Australia - Ref 6460 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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where there is darkness light will come!
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that Australian woman looks like a druggie and 30 dollars for a light I wouldn't Even pay that much
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This is so sad that people are still living like this. Yet the Rothschilds can feed and house every human on the planet with their wealth, can we please build basic homes in poor areas using inspiration from the capsule hotel, grand designs confined spaces, chinas mega factory with 17,000 workers homed schooled and even wed there. starting 1 project somewhere would not be hard
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Making money of the poor "for the environment"...
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Profiting off society's bottom dwellers?.....well that's how it's always been so I'm not surprised.
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PREASE WHITE PEOPOP SAVE USSS
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Monopolizing on poor people smh. This is so fricken sad!! Those white people have no heart. Shame on them!
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Its funny how you say your setting out to help these people. But they are helping them self's and helping us learn what it means to be greatful.
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if I was in their condition them ducks walking around will be my dinner jus sayin
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This is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen!
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This is one of my favorite feel good stories. Well done to the young people behind this scheme, and to the people who actually go to the slums to sell the solar lights, and of course to the poor souls who need this kind of asset.
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I do not think having to take your son to work is the worst thing that could happen to him. In fact, I know it's not. That young man has a work ethic, which is invaluable.
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$30 seems pretty steep to me. Also, as a smoker I can say with confidence that there is no way standing around a kerosene lamp for a few hours a night is even close to as bad as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day as the woman in the video claims.
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Look at india these motherfuckers indian idiots think india is superpower LOL Fuck india Shit
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Wow, i saw these exact same trash-pickers with the giant bags in Haitian slums. It amazes me how much trash gets picked up everyday there, yet the streets are perpetually littered +Journeyman Pictures
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Those Bangladeshi are parasites and must be thrown back to Bangladesh Now see www.thereligionofpeace.com
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3:05 - The kerosene lanterns are causing global warming, er, 'climate change'??? Good grief... Give it a rest. These people need opportunity, not some numbskull political agenda tucked into every video as if it represents --> their <-- worldview.
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so this is logical: leave behind a decent life,go to these slums to make a living -_-
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