THE RURAL WOMEN SOLAR ENGINEERS OF AFRICA| 8mins
Director: BataBhurji | Producer: Barefoot College
Focus Years: 2013 | Country: India
Synopsis:
This is a true story about ordinary heroes. This is about very simple rural women in Africa - illiterate and semi-literate rural grandmothers, who have never left their villages in their entire lives, are proving that the impossible is possible.
Without using written or spoken word, they have come to India to be trained in 6 months to be solar engineers. They have no knowledge or theory of mathematics, physics or electronics. They have no idea of the names of any spare parts and have never heard of generating power from the sun. But in 6 months, using only sign language, they can install a solar unit on the roof and fabricate a solar lantern and shame any paper-qualified solar engineer into silence.
What is extraordinary is that they have solar-powered each house in their own villages all on their own.
THE RURAL WOMEN SOLAR ENGINEERS OF AFRICA
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