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The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of the Gambia

 

 

Barefoot Solar Engineer. Image courtesy of the Barefoot College. spacer 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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