Indian college teaches solar lessons to women

As world leaders debate solutions at the UN climate change conference in Durban, a college in the Indian state of Rajasthan is teaching communities how to harness solar energy.

The barefoot college, as it is locally called, trains women from villages on how to test and assemble complex circuits, which they can then use to set up solar projects back home.

The lives of women, many from some of the world's poorest countries, have been transformed as they are now assembling solar panels which are then sold in the market for $250 each.

Al Jazeera's Prena Suri reports from Rajasthan.

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[daniel9975516286]

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[MyUserInUtube]

Great

[abhishek727]

Where is this institute in Rajasthan? How can I get in touch?

[icebrow]

Illiterate presidents, illetirate CEO's,illiterate priests... illiterate engineers, why not?

[Abbadon380]

voctational educational institutions we need more of it

[lumberj23]

The word ingenieer has had an inflation in some countries.

[kurtilein3]

At first, the idea of illiterate engineers seems a bit strange. But then, all they really need is to be able to make measurements and read numbers and do some basic calculations with numbers. Thats easy to learn, even for illiterates.

[kommireddypavan]

All the people who are technophobic and not capable doing day to day things like paying bills through net,repair small electric works at home,pc software and hardware minor repair and fixing has to understand and get inpired from this that understanding technology is not difficult its just will.

[SuperUncleruckus]

Stupendous

[PeterAndersonn2]

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[OuroborosChoked]

Illiterate engineers. It's a weird, weird world. Awesome story, though!