STORY PREVIEW

2024

Plastic Lamp

MCM MUFULIRA SECONDARY SCHOOL

Copperbelt Province

MENTOR

Ms Getrude Mwamba Shapi

Step 1 FEEL

List the challenges or problems in your surroundings (school,neighbourhood etc.) that bothered you.

- Load shedding - Contamination of the environment

State the problem chosen to work and why.

Seeing that Zambia is experiencing a lot of load shedding and land pollution, we decided to create a lamp using affordable materials e.g. plastic bottles, bucket, box and a battery. This was to prevent land pollution and providing a light source in homes.

Who were the people affected by the problem? What were their primary concerns?

Mostly schools going children who need to study at night to maintain a good academic performance. Some of the primary concern included poor performance in class, use of candles increased the rate at which toddlers get burnt.

Step 2 IMAGINE

List ALL the different solutions you came up with.

1. Generating electricity using waste products. 2. picking bottles but later realized it did not change anything. 3. Creating a lamp using plastic materials

Which solution from those listed above did you choose to implement and why?

Creating a lamp using plastic materials. This is because reusing plastic materials helps in the reduction of land pollution i.e. using plastic materials to create a lamp: with a battery a switch, a LED and plastic holders

Step 3DO

Describe very briefly the process of implementing your solution(s).

Gather the materials you need, take the box and insert a plastic rode. Cut the bottles an connect using glue, put the connected bottles around the plastic rode, insert cable and put the basket on top. Connect the cables to the battery and decorate the external parks.

What was the result or impact of your project?

The lamp was able to turn on and off without the use of electricity and the decorations made the people around amazed. The impact is to help people especially on -going children by providing a source of light and reducing land pollution.

How many people were impacted by your solution(s)?

What did the impacted people have to say about your project? Provide 2 quotes or testimonials:

- They loved it and were happy to know that a solution to load shedding has been found. - If they are produced at a large scale, more people will be able to experience the good wonders of plastic lamps.

What challenges did you encounter while implementing your project, and how did you overcome them?

- Connecting he basket to the rode was very hard and we did not know how to connect the two not unit we tried using soft wires to put everything together.

How long did it take to implement your solution?

0-7 Days

Which global goals does your story align with?

Affordable and Clean energy

Please explain briefly why do you think so?

The use of plastic materials makes it easy to produce unlike suing other expensive materials and seeing that the lamp is able to turn on and off without polluting the environment gives it an advantage.

Step 4 SHARE

How did you share your project with your school and community? Who did you share your project with? What was their response?

We shared the lamp with out school friends and the neighbors who turned out to marvel at our works. Upon people seeing it, some where inspired and wanted to make use of other materials in the environment and finally we shared with our mentor

Approximately how many people did you share your story of change with?

20-50

Briefly share your plan to sustain the impact of your project?

Many people will have a way of lighting up their homes without wasting much of their money and trying to ensure that we make use of plastic materials unlike polluting the environment.

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