WDB-MF clients at Barefoot College in India to train as solar engineers

21.07.11

In March 2011 WDB and SAWID selected three women from the rural areas of South Africa to participate in a six months solar engineering training at the Barefoot College in India.  

The main objective of the training is to introduce renewable energy in the rural areas of South Africa,by offering training to rural women as Solar power engineers.

Precious Molobane Mamogale, 42, a mother of four who lives in a village around 500km from Johannesburg in South Africa, is frowning in concentration at a circuit board in one of the college workshops. She looks uncomfortable. "I didn't expect India to be so hot," she says. However, despite the conditions and the vegetarian diet, she is full of hope for the future. "I want to go back to my country and bring light to my province – and want to open a college like this there so that I can train more women," she explains. Read more….