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TEDx Khartoum 2011 - Nuba Mountains Solar Electrification Project
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TEDx Khartoum 30 April 2011 The Barefoot Solar Engineers Doing the impossible ...
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Presentation on Solar Electrification Project in Nuba Mountains at TEDx Khartoum 2011 EventThe presentation gives a narrative of project story and the changing experience of the Barefoot women solar engineers of Sudan.
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TEDx Khartoum 30 April 2011
The Barefoot Solar Engineers Doing the impossible ...
The End
Meeting ... Bunker Roy
Our Keynote Speaker At the International Conference on Appropriate Technology , Kigali, Rwanda, November 2008
Described his Barefoot College approach for: Community partnership Collective decision making Learning by doing
A quiet revolution in: Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Mali, Mauritania,
Cameroon, Rwanda, The Gambia, Benin, Uganda, Tanzania
Achieved by Barefoot Solar
Engineers in 2008
Meet the Barefoot Solar Engineers
The Barefoot College
Founded in 1986 and located in Tilonia, India Managed by the poor for the poor Believe that formal education is not a condition to become
an engineer Focus on illiterate and semi-literate rural women, most are
grandmothers who never left their village Practice v Theory … Paper v Community Qualification
Follow Mahatma Gandhi simple life and work style Their approach has been applied in 13 States in India and a
number of the least developed countries around the world
It simply works!
Come to Sudan!
Community-based
Organisations Present at First
Selection Meeting
Bunker visited
Achieved by Sudan's First
Barefoot Solar Engineers
in 2011
Final Selection
Zeinab Balandia, Ruya Organisation
Suliman TayaraAssociation of Small Farmers Group
Off to India March 2009
Time to say goodbye ...
Mirri is only the beginning
Ruya Organisation visits Mirri after village selection
Settling in …
Learning other skills …
Not only were they learning technical skills
… They were exposed to other cultures which
enhances their ability to be innovators
Barefoot Solar Engineers arriving in Khartoum September 2009
Family and Friends from Ombadda Karror waiting at the airport for the Engineer's arrival
There were so many supporters that there weren't enough seats!
An emotional home coming
While waiting for the Equipment … producing
chalk, candles, paper bags...
Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010
Organising exhibitions
Equipment arrives (by car, cart, boat) in Mirri
Work started
The community was always curious and learning from them
They are teaching the community …
which is how the project can spread to
other parts of the Sudan
Some members from the
Project Village Committee that
included a diverse set of people
Filling the batteries
Distributing solar units to each
household
Panels are up in Mirri
Anxiously waiting for night to come
Think of how much having light will have an impact on children's education
That Moment … Light is on in MirriFebruary 2011
Next village …
Aldorod Tabaldia
Those four innovators have empowered themselves
They are one of the wonders of their community ...
The engineers and those they train can light the whole of rural Sudan -- if we …
have pro-poor policies and mechanisms in place learn from and invest in models that work
Although this is a community led/owned project -- we need to … Thank all who donated to, or facilitated, a step in the project,
but those are too numerous to mention. Find them on:
http://www.yaarti.net/barefoot/barefootinsudan.html
But most of all -- we need to …
Salute the courage and resilience of those women...
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you
and then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
This is really only the beginning …
