THE GREENATHON- Our big effort for the environment
NDTV is producing India's first ever 24-hour live event, THE GREENATHON that will be telecast across all NDTV channels to raise awareness about the environment and find ways to create a cleaner, greener tomorrow.
The Greenathon will help raise funds for TERI’s ‘Lighting a Billion Lives’ initiative to provide solar lanterns to villages that would otherwise be without electricity for a decade or more.
You too can become a part of this initiative. Here's how you can help;
You can send us cheques made out in the name of
The Energy and Resources Institute payable in New Delhi at the following address:
| NDTV Ltd., |
| Archana Complex, |
| Greater Kailash Part 1, |
| New Delhi- 110 048 |
(LABL should be written behind the cheque and it should be posted to NDTV in an envelope marked to Greenathon c/o environment campaign)
| Lighting a Billion Lives - A |  | initiative |
Over 1.6 billion people in the world lack access to electricity; roughly
25 per cent are in India alone. For these people, life comes to a standstill after dusk. Inadequate lighting is not only an impediment to progress and
development opportunities, but also has a direct impact on the health,
environment, and safety of millions of people, as they are forced to light
their homes with kerosene lamps, dung cakes, firewood, and crop residue
after sunset.
Recognizing the need to change the existing scenario, TERI, with its vision to work for global sustainable development and its commitment towards
creating innovative solutions for a better tomorrow, has undertaken an
initiative of 'Lighting a Billion Lives' (LABL) through the use of solar
lighting devices.
The Campaign aims to bring light into the lives of one billion rural people by replacing the kerosene and paraffin lanterns with solar lighting
devices. This will facilitate education of children; provide better
illumination and kerosene-smoke-free indoor environment for women to do
household chores; and provide opportunities for livelihoods both at the
individual level and at village level.