From: The Barefoot College <[email protected]> To: Subject: The Barefoot Approach: Empowering Rural Women to Light up the World Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:01:57 +0000 Having trouble viewing this email? Click here You are receiving this email from Barefoot College because you purchased a product/service or subscribed on our website. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add [email protected] to your address book today. If you haven't done so already, click to con fi rm your interest in receiving email campaigns from us. You may ginciihcrrihe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. Barefoot College The Barefoot Approach: Empowering Rural Women to Light up the World The Barefoot Rural Women Solar Engineers of Africa Assembly of Solar Panel A Framework for Building Local Capacity Since 2008, the Barefoot College has been selected by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, as a Trining Institute under India Technical Economic Cooperation (ITEC) and Special Commonwealth African Assistance Programme (SCAAP). ITEC/SCAAP has provided administrative, logistic and financial support for training poor, rural, semi-literate and illiterate women in solar electrification and rainwater harvesting. By September 2011, 163 women from 32 countries will have been trained with ITEC/SCAAP support. Click to read the profilse of TTEr Trahuon 201 A rural family in Africa bums around 60 liters of kerosene a year to light their home, and the average kerosene lamp in Africa spews out more than a ton of carbon dioxide every decade. Most families also cook indoors over wood fires. The health effects of burning kerosene, coal, and wood are devastating: Toxic smoke causes respiratory diseases that kill 1.6 million women and children per year and causes severe respiratory problems for tens of millions. Solar power is not only dean, it is also sustainable, and there are tens of thousands of villages across the African