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他用一盏灯照亮了自己前进的方向，也照亮了别人心中的希望。他建立了基金会，和志愿者一起将光明引入成千上万人的生活。为了感受每一个新的灯具发亮时的快乐，他的脚步还要走到世界更遥远的地方。
Dave Irvine Halliday climbs out of his navy-blue tent and ventures into the warm Nepali night. It isn’t that he’s alone, awash1 in the silence of a remote village, that intrigues2 him. It’s the light visible through the windows of the clay-and -stone homes. After all, the glow from electric lights was rarely seen in the village before Irvine Halliday’s team arrived with their luminous3 gift.
This is Irvine Halliday’s obsession4: bringing light into the homes of millions of people in remote corners of the world. His mission began in 1997, when the 54-year-old electrical and computer engineering professor from the University of Calgary in Canada was travelling through Nepal’s Thorung La pass region. He was distressed5 to see children working in the rice fields, with little time for schooling. Since few homes had light, studying after dark was impossible. Irvine Halliday discovered that by deploying modern technology, virtually anyone could have light, and in 2000 he created the foundation Light Up the World. “Reading and writing are such a vital6 part of any modern society. I just felt something had to be done,” he says.
Irvine Halliday has travelled to other villages in Nepal, and to India, Sri Lanka and other countries, to install his systems. Since the organisation’s inception7, Irvine Halliday and his volunteers have brought light into the lives of thousands of people.
To start Light Up the World, Irvine Halliday used his family’s entire life savings, then maxed out three credit cards to keep it afloat8. His group has since been put on a much more secure footing after he and his wife accepted the prestigious9 $100 000 Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2002.
“I’m more certain than ever that we will reach a million people with lamps by 2005,” he says.
Irvine Halliday’s success can be attributed to the simplicity of the system. Electrcity is generated by a pedal-powered generator10, a small hydro11 generator or by solar panels connected to a central battery. Lines are run to each home and connected to white-light-emitting diode(LED) lamps. The lights are extremely efficient, and dozens of homes equipped with them consume less energy than it takes to power a single 100-watt bulb.
Once a village has been equipped, each family is encouraged to pay a tiny monthly maintenance fee, and they must keep the system’s battery in good working order. Occasionally, staff return to villages to ensure the systems are still working.
Even after installing thousands of lights, Irvine Halliday is thrilled when each new set blinks on. “It still gives me goosebumps,” he says. That alone is reward enough to keep him travelling to remote corners of the world.
戴夫·欧文·哈利迪从他的藏青色帐篷爬出来，冒险走入尼泊尔温暖的夜幕。令他兴趣盎然的并不是孑然一身，徘徊在一个遥远村庄的更深夜阑之中，而是穿过泥石房屋的窗户的灯光。毕竟，在欧文·哈利迪小组带着他们的发光礼物到达之前，电灯的光亮是罕见的。
让欧文·哈利迪着迷的是将光明引入了世界遥远角落的数以百万计人家。他的这一使命始于1997年，当时，这位54岁的加拿大卡尔格利大学电气电脑工程教授正穿越尼泊尔托鲁恩拉通行区。他揪心地发现孩子们在田间劳动，几乎没有时间上学。因为拥有光明的家庭寥若晨星，因而在天黑后学习是不可能的。欧文·哈利迪发现，利用现代技术，几乎任何人都能拥有光明。2000年，他创设了“照亮世界”基金会。“读和写是现代社会极其重要的部分，我真切地感到必须做点事情了。”他说。
欧文·哈利迪旅行的足迹延伸到尼泊尔的其他村庄。在印度、斯里兰卡等国，他的系列做法扎下了根。自这一组织开创以来，欧文·哈利迪和他的志愿者将光明引入了成千上万人的生活。
为了启动“照亮世界”，欧文·哈利迪将家里全部积蓄派上用场，竭尽全力地办了三张信用卡来启动这一基金会。2002年他和妻子接受颇有声望的10万美元的罗莱克斯事业奖后，他的小组从此便打下了更牢固的基础，脚跟也站得更稳了。
“我比以前更加自信，到2005年我们将使拥有灯光的人数达到100万。”他说。
欧文·哈利迪的成功可以归因于一个简单的装置：一个用脚蹬启动的发电机，它是一种小型的氨发电机或一个连在中心电池上的太阳能帆板发电装置，其线路通向每一个家庭，连接在发光二极管灯上。这种光的效率极高，很多装上这种灯的家庭消耗的能量比一个100瓦灯泡消耗的能量还要少。
一旦一个村庄安装了这样的灯，每一个家庭将按月付极少的维修费，他们必须使这一装置的电池保持正常工作。工作人员有时回到村庄，以确保装置仍在工作。
即使在安装了成千上万盏灯后，当每一套新的灯具闪烁时，欧文·哈利迪还是震颤不已。“它仍然使我浑身起鸡皮疙瘩。”他说。仅仅这个就足以成为一种奖励，促使他不停地远行到世界的遥远角落。
王善武摘译自The Sun Times
Dave Irvine Halliday climbs out of his navy-blue tent and ventures into the warm Nepali night. It isn’t that he’s alone, awash1 in the silence of a remote village, that intrigues2 him. It’s the light visible through the windows of the clay-and -stone homes. After all, the glow from electric lights was rarely seen in the village before Irvine Halliday’s team arrived with their luminous3 gift.
This is Irvine Halliday’s obsession4: bringing light into the homes of millions of people in remote corners of the world. His mission began in 1997, when the 54-year-old electrical and computer engineering professor from the University of Calgary in Canada was travelling through Nepal’s Thorung La pass region. He was distressed5 to see children working in the rice fields, with little time for schooling. Since few homes had light, studying after dark was impossible. Irvine Halliday discovered that by deploying modern technology, virtually anyone could have light, and in 2000 he created the foundation Light Up the World. “Reading and writing are such a vital6 part of any modern society. I just felt something had to be done,” he says.
Irvine Halliday has travelled to other villages in Nepal, and to India, Sri Lanka and other countries, to install his systems. Since the organisation’s inception7, Irvine Halliday and his volunteers have brought light into the lives of thousands of people.
To start Light Up the World, Irvine Halliday used his family’s entire life savings, then maxed out three credit cards to keep it afloat8. His group has since been put on a much more secure footing after he and his wife accepted the prestigious9 $100 000 Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2002.
“I’m more certain than ever that we will reach a million people with lamps by 2005,” he says.
Irvine Halliday’s success can be attributed to the simplicity of the system. Electrcity is generated by a pedal-powered generator10, a small hydro11 generator or by solar panels connected to a central battery. Lines are run to each home and connected to white-light-emitting diode(LED) lamps. The lights are extremely efficient, and dozens of homes equipped with them consume less energy than it takes to power a single 100-watt bulb.
Once a village has been equipped, each family is encouraged to pay a tiny monthly maintenance fee, and they must keep the system’s battery in good working order. Occasionally, staff return to villages to ensure the systems are still working.
Even after installing thousands of lights, Irvine Halliday is thrilled when each new set blinks on. “It still gives me goosebumps,” he says. That alone is reward enough to keep him travelling to remote corners of the world.
戴夫·欧文·哈利迪从他的藏青色帐篷爬出来，冒险走入尼泊尔温暖的夜幕。令他兴趣盎然的并不是孑然一身，徘徊在一个遥远村庄的更深夜阑之中，而是穿过泥石房屋的窗户的灯光。毕竟，在欧文·哈利迪小组带着他们的发光礼物到达之前，电灯的光亮是罕见的。
让欧文·哈利迪着迷的是将光明引入了世界遥远角落的数以百万计人家。他的这一使命始于1997年，当时，这位54岁的加拿大卡尔格利大学电气电脑工程教授正穿越尼泊尔托鲁恩拉通行区。他揪心地发现孩子们在田间劳动，几乎没有时间上学。因为拥有光明的家庭寥若晨星，因而在天黑后学习是不可能的。欧文·哈利迪发现，利用现代技术，几乎任何人都能拥有光明。2000年，他创设了“照亮世界”基金会。“读和写是现代社会极其重要的部分，我真切地感到必须做点事情了。”他说。
欧文·哈利迪旅行的足迹延伸到尼泊尔的其他村庄。在印度、斯里兰卡等国，他的系列做法扎下了根。自这一组织开创以来，欧文·哈利迪和他的志愿者将光明引入了成千上万人的生活。
为了启动“照亮世界”，欧文·哈利迪将家里全部积蓄派上用场，竭尽全力地办了三张信用卡来启动这一基金会。2002年他和妻子接受颇有声望的10万美元的罗莱克斯事业奖后，他的小组从此便打下了更牢固的基础，脚跟也站得更稳了。
“我比以前更加自信，到2005年我们将使拥有灯光的人数达到100万。”他说。
欧文·哈利迪的成功可以归因于一个简单的装置：一个用脚蹬启动的发电机，它是一种小型的氨发电机或一个连在中心电池上的太阳能帆板发电装置，其线路通向每一个家庭，连接在发光二极管灯上。这种光的效率极高，很多装上这种灯的家庭消耗的能量比一个100瓦灯泡消耗的能量还要少。
一旦一个村庄安装了这样的灯，每一个家庭将按月付极少的维修费，他们必须使这一装置的电池保持正常工作。工作人员有时回到村庄，以确保装置仍在工作。
即使在安装了成千上万盏灯后，当每一套新的灯具闪烁时，欧文·哈利迪还是震颤不已。“它仍然使我浑身起鸡皮疙瘩。”他说。仅仅这个就足以成为一种奖励，促使他不停地远行到世界的遥远角落。
王善武摘译自The Sun Times