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Hi

I'd like to set up some lights around toilets and around capms in Guiglo, Cote D'Ivoire - so I'm considering using solar powered lights. Ideally I would like smallish units that give a strong downwards light and which could hang from a rope - I would string the rope fairly high (10 - 12 ft) to try to avoid people stealing them without going to the effort of cutting the rope down or removing supports. Most camping style lamps are inappropriate because they give light in a sideways direction, and the alternatives seem to be industrial level lights complete with poles etc - so quite pricey.

1) Does anyone have any products they would recommend or avoid? 2) In Pakistan I saw some orange disc shaped lights about 4" in diameter, about 1" thick, with quite a lot of LEDs on one side and Solar panel on the other - has anyone seen these or used them? they could be ideal. 3) What are the alternatives - giving out hurricane lamps, maybe...but then we would need to do one per family...

I'd be interested to see what views there are out there.

All the best, Mark