Our Story

After traveling to Tanzania twice with my school in 2025 and 2026, I saw firsthand how a lack of reliable electricity affects families across Arusha. During my time there, I visited children living in homes smaller than half of my dorm room, with no electricity and sometimes no light except what came through an open doorway. Once the sun set—or when it started raining—students had no way to continue reading or doing their homework.

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But what stayed with me most were the friendships I made. I realized that the students I met were much more similar to me than I had expected. We joked about the same things, cared about school, had big ambitions, and worried about many of the same things.

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That changed the way I thought about helping. They weren't simply "African students" receiving charity. They were my friends. They were students just like me, many just as smart and ambitious as I was, but without access to something I had always taken for granted: being able to turn on a light and keep studying after dark.

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When I returned home, I couldn't stop thinking about how something so simple could limit how much time a student has to learn. I wanted to do something about it. That was how One Meter of Sunshine began.

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Audrey Su

Founder & CEO 

One Meter of Sunshine