Extend the Day, a Bainbridge-based organization that provides inexpensive solar powered reading lights, at no cost, to schoolchildren who live without electricity, will screen their documentary film “Into the Light” at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 16.

The group partners with locally run and operated organizations in the areas of need, which, officials said, “helps us to be culturally sensitive and have the ability to monitor the lights.”

According to Extend the Day, about 79 percent of people in developing nations depend on kerosene or other burning light, regular use of which is “like smoking 40 cigarettes a day.”

Also consider: “1.8 million people die every year from complications arising from indoor air contamination by kerosene. Kerosene fires are common, killing more than 1 million people yearly.

“The smoke and carbon dioxide coming from the world’s fuel lanterns is equivalent to the exhaust from 30 million cars.

“Fuel is expensive — about $40 billion per year is spent on lighting fuel by the world’s poorest people (who spend up to 30 percent of their monthly income on kerosene oil).”

Extend the Day uses adventure travelers and existing non-government organizations as distribution partners.

In the film, viewers follow the Extend the Day team on a journey through Myanmar, Bangladesh and Nepal, meet the children, hear the stories, experience the struggles and see the incredible impact of what a simple, clean, safe solar light can make in a life.

Tickets to the screening, which includes wine and snacks, are on sale now. The cost is $40 per person.

Go to www.extendtheday.org to learn more about Extend the Day.