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New Solar Mamas energize Puerto Rico water system
A partnership formed in the rural rain forest of Puerto Rico made history this week with the first conversion of a deep well community water source to a direct solar pump in Puerto Rico.
Read MoreFlip The Switch honored at film festivals
The documentary Flip the Switch featuring Barefoot College (and produced by Hogan Lovells Citizenship) has been invited to the 2019 Los Angeles Short Film Festival and is now a semi-finalist at the 2019 American Documentary Film Festival! This comes after the film was a finalist at the 2018 TvE Global Sustainability Awards in London. Flip the Switch focuses on…
Read MoreWomen at the center of climate solutions
Friends of Barefoot College-USA has crafted a strategic plan for 2019 that elevates our funding priorities focused on gender equality and climate solutions in new and exciting ways. In diverse places like hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico and deep in the Amazon Rain Forest of Brazil, women are being trained as solar engineers and leaders who will…
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