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Voices of Kailahun

Voices of Kailahun

14 May 2013

In Sierra Leone, a UNIDO training programme is creating jobs and reducing poverty.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged gara tie-dying, Guinea, Japan, job creation, poverty reduction, Sierra Leone, training, UNIDO, Voices of Kailahun

The ‘barefoot’ solar engineers

The ‘barefoot’ solar engineers

11 March 2013

The Barefoot College in western India is training illiterate or semi-literate women from all over the world to be solar engineers.

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Barefoot College, Bunker Roy, Fiji, India, renewable energy technology, Sierra Leone, solar, South-South cooperation, Tilonia, women

Learning by the 'midnight sun' in Sierra Leone

Learning by the ‘midnight sun’ in Sierra Leone

21 January 2013

Muneer Kirmani on how solar-charged lanterns enable education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged chores, éducation, female pupils, Ishmael Bangura, Kambia, Kandeh Yumkella, kerosene, Kychom, Mhorikhanu, Muneer Kirmani, Peace Corps Education Volunteer, primary education, Sierra Leone, solar lantern, solar-charged lanterns, Sub-Saharan Africa, Susu, UNIDO

Making light from the sun

Making light from the sun

12 September 2011

How South-South cooperation can make renewable energy technology and knowledge accessible, and at the same time, help to reduce poverty

Posted in All Posts, Extra! | Tagged Barefoot College, Bunker Roy interview, Charles Arthur, how to make light from the sun, India, Indian government, Konta Line village, Making It magazine, Port Loko, Rajasthan, reduce poverty, renewable energy technology, rural communities, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone government, solar power, South-South cooperation, subsistence farmers, the Guardian, Tilonia, training programme

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