Bryan Gonzalez is not only a very kind and thoughtful twelve-year-old, but he is also a very curious and innovative one. So when Bryan was walking through his town in Mexico and noticed that there were several homes where he didn’t see any light in the windows, he immediately wanted to know why the houses didn’t seem to have any lights. Bryan talked to his parents and his teachers and found out that those homes were not equipped with electricity, and therefore they didn’t have any overhead light at night. Once he heard that, Bryan decided he wanted to help those families by lighting up their lives, so to speak.
He immediately went to work figuring out solutions to their lighting problem by scouring the internet for anything that would be easy to make, not too expensive, and that could be a sustainable way to bring light into these families homes. During his research, he learned that almost 15 percent of the world’s population didn’t have overhead lighting, and he decided that he would find a solution not just for the people of his home town, but for Mexico itself, and the world at large.
After racking his brain for the best possible way to implement his plan, you could say a light bulb went on over his head, and it came to him – water bottles. Bryan realized he could use water bottles and turn them into a light bulbs which would be robust enough to brighten an entire room. The first houses he tried his prototype ones are the very ones that inspired him, the ones he walked by in his neighborhood with dark windows.
The families cannot believe the gift that this young boy has given them. Their own children can now do their homework at night with overhead light, instead of by candlelight, among other countless ways this will improve their lives. One of the homeowners, Dona Sofia, a mother, and grandmother, could not hold back her emotion. Embracing Bryan and saying, “Things are going to be different now. This twelve-year-old boy has changed this family’s life.”
Bryan hopes his own work will inspire others around the world, especially young people, to take up the mantle and build and implement his prototype in homes of others in need.
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