Rafea, a Solar Mama

This video is a sequel to Barefoot College’s film about African and other illiterate women who are trained to become solar-energy engineers. Yes, it’s possible! This story about a Jordanian “Solar Mama” is truly extraordinary and uplifting. 

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Accomplishments to Celebrate

  At the end of this year, let’s celebrate some of mankind’s accomplishments. We chose to attack some salient global health issues, and we can now legitimately say that we can look forward to the end of HIV/AIDS, and that we can end mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS within a few years. We’ve reduced death by […]

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Solar Mamas

Bunker Roy is truly a visionary. He’s the now well-known founder of Barefoot College in Tilonia, India. Recently The Good Times had the privilege to meet Bunker and hear about one of his new ideas: Solar Mamas. The initiative provides grandmothers from Africa with training in solar engineering. The women who are sent to Barefoot College for six months to […]

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