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The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia

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posted Feb 14, 2008

Barefoot Solar Engineer. Image courtesy of the Barefoot College.

The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia:

See the solar installation in process, start to finish: follow two rural illiterate women from The Gambia who learn how to become Barefoot Solar Engineers.

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Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

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