15 Indigenous Women Who Became Solar Engineers Latina Lista
go to original November 25, 2015

Doña Luz ~ Solar Mama Stories Trailer (Barefoot College Media)

1.2 billion people on this planet live without electricity. In Latin America alone, the number reaches 24 million people. What is it like to live without electricity or light in 2015? What is it like to live under the feeble flicker of a candle, an oil lamp or a burning ocote branch? How can solar electricity change their way of life?

Varial Cedric Houin is a nomadic photographer, filmmaker, and writer at the service of the planet and the struggles of indigenous communities. For 3 months, he traveled to 8 different communities in Guatemala, Belize, Salvador, Ecuador, and Mexico, collecting the stories of 15 special mothers and grandmothers.

Chosen by Barefoot College to train as solar engineers during 6 months in India, these women, who had never before traveled beyond their remote communities, left their husbands, children, and entire families and communities to embark on an incredible journey to bring light to their communities... and a new life.

Maria, Rosa, Norma, Florentina, Maria, Rosa, Catarina, Norma, Estella, Patricia, Beltran, Maura, Margarita, Ana Silvia, Maria Helena

...He created Doña Luz ~ Solar Mama Stories as an intimate diary to link readers with unique examples of empowerment, dignity and courage. He has gathered hundreds of moments frozen in time and transcriptions and personal entries to bring the reader and the viewer into a remote world, most never imagined existed.

Check out the crowdfunder campaign on Indiegogo

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