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Barefoot College — Solar Mamas
Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic
Description
Trains illiterate rural women as solar engineers who electrify their own villages.
Lessons learned
Scaled to 93 countries, training 3,500 women (~2.5M people with solar access); the model relies on government/philanthropic support (India's Ministry of External Affairs, IRENA) rather than the market.
Lineage
gave rise toSolar Mamas MalawiMalawi adapts the Tilonia Solar Mama model; scale national->localscale local