The Light Up The World Foundation brings ultra-efficient, durable and near permanent White Light Emitting Diodes (WLED) lighting solutions powered by renewable energy to the world's poor in ecologically sensitive and remote rural areas.

Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to illuminating the lives of the world's poor. It is the first organization to utilize solid-state lighting technologies to bring affordable, safe, healthy, efficient, and environmentally responsible lighting to people currently without access to proper lighting. LUTW is the world's leader in the advancement and diffusion of this technology for development purposes and remains globally active in setting standards in this field.

Since inception, through the generous support from interested individuals, host country organizations, international foundations and industrial partners, LUTW has lit up more than 14,000 homes in 42 countries. LUTW projects have brought tangible gains to communities enhancing their health and safety, fostering local education, developing an economic infrastructure and protecting the physical environment. Over 100,000 people have been impacted directly by LUTW's work. LUTW has won international acclaim for its technological and social innovations. LUTW's goal of reaching the approximately 2 billion people worldwide without access to adequate lighting is ongoing.

According to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions in the developing world comes from dirty, hazardous and expensive fuel-based sources such as kerosene for lighting.

LBNL states explicitly that the only real way to meet the increasing lighting energy demands is to replace fuel based lighting with solid state lighting systems.