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Zanzibar’s ‘Solar Mamas’ Are Trained as Technicians to Help Light up Communities
The program trains mostly middle-aged women over six months to install solar kits, replacing kerosene lamps and improving health in 1,845 Zanzibar homes.
- In recent years, Barefoot College International has trained solar mamas in Zanzibar, Tanzania to become technicians, lighting 1,845 homes in off-grid villages.
- In recent years, villages without grid connections faced half of Zanzibar's 2,000,000 residents lacking electricity and harmful kerosene lamps, prompting clean-energy training.
- The program selects middle‑aged women, most with little or no formal education, and program graduates leave equipped with at least 50 solar panel kits from Barefoot College International Zanzibar campus.
- Graduates report changed community attitudes and new livelihoods, as Tatu Omary Hamad installed solar panels lighting her home and solar mamas shifted local views.
- As the program scales across Africa, Barefoot College International has expanded to Madagascar and Senegal, recruiting trainees from Malawi, Somaliland, and this year Central African Republic, while facing funding cuts from major donors.
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Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities – UK Times
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected to the electricity grid. After sunset, she would turn to smoky oil lamps that provid…
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