tedx khartoum 2011 - nuba mountains solar electrification project
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Presentation on Solar Electrification Project in Nuba Mountains at TEDx Khartoum 2011 EventThe presentation gives a narrative of project story and the changing experience of the Barefoot women solar engineers of Sudan.TRANSCRIPT
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TEDx Khartoum 30 April 2011
The Barefoot Solar Engineers Doing the impossible ...
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The End
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Meeting ... Bunker Roy
Our Keynote Speaker At the International Conference on Appropriate Technology , Kigali, Rwanda, November 2008
Described his Barefoot College approach for: Community partnership Collective decision making Learning by doing
A quiet revolution in: Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Mali, Mauritania,
Cameroon, Rwanda, The Gambia, Benin, Uganda, Tanzania
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Achieved by Barefoot Solar
Engineers in 2008
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Meet the Barefoot Solar Engineers
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The Barefoot College
Founded in 1986 and located in Tilonia, India Managed by the poor for the poor Believe that formal education is not a condition to become
an engineer Focus on illiterate and semi-literate rural women, most are
grandmothers who never left their village Practice v Theory … Paper v Community Qualification
Follow Mahatma Gandhi simple life and work style Their approach has been applied in 13 States in India and a
number of the least developed countries around the world
It simply works!
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Come to Sudan!
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Community-based
Organisations Present at First
Selection Meeting
Bunker visited
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Achieved by Sudan's First
Barefoot Solar Engineers
in 2011
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Final Selection
Zeinab Balandia, Ruya Organisation
Suliman TayaraAssociation of Small Farmers Group
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Off to India March 2009
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Time to say goodbye ...
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Mirri is only the beginning
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Ruya Organisation visits Mirri after village selection
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Settling in …
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Learning other skills …
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Not only were they learning technical skills
… They were exposed to other cultures which
enhances their ability to be innovators
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Barefoot Solar Engineers arriving in Khartoum September 2009
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Family and Friends from Ombadda Karror waiting at the airport for the Engineer's arrival
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There were so many supporters that there weren't enough seats!
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An emotional home coming
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While waiting for the Equipment … producing
chalk, candles, paper bags...
Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2010
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Organising exhibitions
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Equipment arrives (by car, cart, boat) in Mirri
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Work started
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The community was always curious and learning from them
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They are teaching the community …
which is how the project can spread to
other parts of the Sudan
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Some members from the
Project Village Committee that
included a diverse set of people
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Filling the batteries
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Distributing solar units to each
household
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Panels are up in Mirri
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Anxiously waiting for night to come
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Think of how much having light will have an impact on children's education
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That Moment … Light is on in MirriFebruary 2011
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Next village …
Aldorod Tabaldia
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Those four innovators have empowered themselves
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They are one of the wonders of their community ...
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The engineers and those they train can light the whole of rural Sudan -- if we …
have pro-poor policies and mechanisms in place learn from and invest in models that work
Although this is a community led/owned project -- we need to … Thank all who donated to, or facilitated, a step in the project,
but those are too numerous to mention. Find them on:
http://www.yaarti.net/barefoot/barefootinsudan.html
But most of all -- we need to …
Salute the courage and resilience of those women...
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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you
and then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
This is really only the beginning …
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