Think you’re on the cutting edge of going green? You will be challenged to do more when you watch this video of rural Bolivian women being trained to install solar panels.
India's Barefoot College trained women from Bolivia's remote Altiplano villages in solar technology, and then shipped the equipment to their villages, where they would be in charge of installing and maintaining it.
Solar Power Reaches Tombouctou Two extraordinary, but very ordinary women have set an example for the whole of Africa, and demonstrated how the impossible is possible… How solar reached Tombouctou!
The Night Schools Solar lanterns from the barefoot solar engineers enable a unique system of night schools throughout India, providing working children with both education and an experience of democracy.
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