Save Empty Bottles?

Many times I come to see some poor people in depressed areas all over the world trying to cope with poverty.  All these things I can only watch as they are interviewed by reporters.  It always comes to my mind the earnest desire to extend help to these less fortunate fellows, but how?

These poorest of the poor situated at far flung areas are hardly reached by civilization, to add a little exaggeration. They live in very small dark shanties, without amenities and worst - nothing to even give to their children at meal time.

Now, I began thinking of providing them at least illumination to light up their homes without adding burden of paying additional electric bills. I humbly suggest that the respective local government units gather and use the discarded empty plastic bottles of drinking water to light up homes. This newly discovered procedure can easily be prepared by anybody. The materials are easily obtained and cost nothing, not to mention the preservation of the environment if these are recycled.

Get an empty plastic bottle of clear bottled water, a piece of discarded corrugated or an aluminum sheet or anything to keep the materials stick together.  Now punch a hole the size of the bottle on the center of the metal sheet, fill the empty bottle with water, attach the bottle to the sheet and attach the gadget on the roof. Just make sure that half of the bottle is seen on the roof and the other half extended inside the house. You'll be amazed, as I was when I first saw one; the amount of light it can give to the house is brighter than any ordinary bulb can.

This will surely lessen the many problems of the distressed families, at least during daytime when the sun shines and the rays are reflected on the water filled bottle installed on the roof inside the house. How about at night? I'm also waiting for another engineer to come up with a solution to that.

So, the next time you feast and open drinking water bottles, think of our less fortunate neighbors out there. Save those empty bottles!