How To Save Dozens Of People's Lives For $36

I just met someone who's saved dozens of people's lives with a home-built device.

It goes like this: In Guatemala, if the power goes out in the middle of a major surgical operation, the room is blacked out and the patient dies. This may happen several times a day.

Existing solar-powered surgical lights cost $1000. This means that not many of them are installed.

This guy (he's not big on publicity) took a dozen garden-path lights, stuck them onto the back of an aluminum muffin tin, and made a light that is bright enough to save the patient's life.

Three of these devices have been delivered... and have already saved over 30 lives.

Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to save someone's life? Even to save one person's life, sometime during your lifetime? Most of us never get that privilege.

This one person, with garden lights, a muffin tin, and velcro, has saved dozens of lives already.

That's the optimist's aspect of extreme poverty. Even the littlest things - if designed to fill a need, and delivered appropriately - can make a huge difference.