Shy Kit Wong is highly passionate about doing social good and enthusiastic in engineering knowledge. He believes in the effort of making a distinct positive impact on marginalized communities by utilizing both technical and entrepreneurial knowledge. He is currently working on a PhD on renewable energy at Universiti Putra Malaysia, while actively involves in self-developing programs.He is trying to make a change, one step at a time.

Five-Year Project Goals:

• Integrate their device implementation with all the rural community development projects in Malaysia as the most practical solution.

Organization Information: Luminary

Website: http://lumina-ry.com/

Luminary is a social enterprise that focuses on designing off-grid and autonomous system using clean energy to provide clean water and electricity to rural and disaster prone areas, while integrating thorough impact assessments services on both people and the environment throughout the projects. They are rerouting the way we supply clean water and electricity to marginalized communities in rural areas.

Luminary is the pioneer in developing a solar thermal powered device named ‘Light2O’, which provides both clean drinkable water and light at once for marginalized communities. This device is also applicable to crisis-struck areas where immediate sources are needed for the victims. They seek to implement Light2O in various areas of Peninsular Malaysia, East Malaysia, as well as in Indonesia. Luminary also aims to revolutionaries the method of approach in social causes by promoting sustainable alternative solutions in order to cater to the needs of marginalized communities specifically as well as the stakeholders that will be working with them.