Solar energy access, education, and jobs for Colombian Indigenous communities.
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Solar power for a world-class educational campus for at-risk girls and young women in the Dominican Republic.
An Indigenous community recuperates and regenerates ancestral territory in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
Transitioning agricultural processing equipment to solar to improve womens’ economic opportunities.
Increasing access to electricity and clean water for riverbank families and promoting the use of renewable energy in rural areas across the Brazilian Amazon.
Increasing access to electricity and promoting economic development for some of the most remote communities in the Triunfo Cristal Páez Indigenous reservation.
Expanding communication across four communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon via solar-powered radio access.
First-time access to electricity for Haitian-Dominicans working on sugar plantations in the Dominican Republic.
Creating reliable access to water and electricity for the drought-stricken Zenú Indigenous community.
Solar energy and internet access for an indigenous school and community center.
Solar installation for 40 families in an indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.
Solar-powered aguaje fruit processing center, technician workforce development, and sustainable forest management training for a rural Indigenous community in the Amazon.
Installing solar home systems and providing technical training and capacity building for remote Indigenous Shuar communities in the Amazon.
Empowering the regional expansion of Kara Solar’s solar-powered boats and community centers in the Peruvian Amazon.
Solar energy for remote indigenous communities fighting to protect their ancestral ways of life alongside some of the most biodiverse rainforests on the planet.
Scaling a network of solar-powered canoes to transform transportation across the Amazon.
Improving economic opportunity and quality of life in remote Amazonian communities around Ilha das Cinzas.