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Bangladesh - Renewable Technology Opportunities for Women

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Opportunity for Women in Renewable Energy Technology Use in Bangladesh. This was initiated in 1999 with $175,000 from ESMAP as a project in Char Montaz, a coastal island in Bangladesh, with technical assistance from Prokaushali Sangsad Ltd (PSL). South Asia Partnership, Bangladesh, an NGO provided initial support in social mobilization and micro-credit. The project provided skill and renewable energy technology training to 32 poor women in Char Montaz and assited them in establishing the Coastal Women's Electrification and Development Microenterprise, which now has become a SME with 117 employees. Diversification: Initially, it was assembling of DC lamps and providing services through battery charging station. Now the SME has moved to assembling CFL and LED lamps, controllers and inverters of solar home system (SHS) and mobile phone chargers. It has provided SHS to almost 30,000 households, small enterprises and markets in coastal areas, where grid electrification is not a feasible option.The lessons from this project was taken into a larger project: Bangladesh Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Development ($200m). In this project, nearly 200,000 SHS are provided to poor households in remote areas. Grameen Shaki, Srijani, TMSS and other NGOs learnt from this project and made micro-finance available to the poor households for SHS. The World Bank

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm
Author: WorldBank

Length: 08:52
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sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@nmutube21 when they have problems paying them back and end up haveing to pay back double in interest im not sure you'll say the same thing
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@KoroOutbreak i think you should see what the world banks stands for when you learn your gonna come back and say the opposit.
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@1mohan no such thing you cant get energy from nothing.
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@LotharioCasanova how about b'desh for all muslims the world over. read your history islam gives freedom and brings progress, its only the last 100 years that muslim countries went down hill now there comeing up.
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@1mohan Its an Islamic country and things like that belong in museum as for the imams there uneducated in islam and thats the problem
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
@seshagiri66 dont get sucked into the reduced population idea, its bullshit. all children are a gift from god and if he give you 100 then he knows you can cope with it.
sniperusg50 (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
its funny how first they show pics of woman working and making baskets ect then she says the men in the villege said woman shouldent work. whats the interent on the loan (micro credit) for the lamps? we in the west dont use solar tec because its to expensive but in the 3rd world they can pay for it with micro credit? banks are out to make money they do not have the interests of the poor at heart you will see things like this back fire when they cant pay back the money.
geemoore (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
With education and changes of mentality for people to finally realize this will be the time we will start to be free, I am not speaking of a Utopia i am speaking of a time to wake up.Technology is not something only for scientists, as proven here its something we can all learn as we do every day in some way to progress by.
geemoore (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
This shows its possible in any circumstances BUT yet again there are at two things here that are proven to hold back progression - religion trying to suppress women even though it was over come in this instance and the other is Money. There is enough technology for all people on earth to have a very high standard of living in a resourced based economy. Money is nothing more than modern day slavery that is the cause of all problems made by man, from pollution, war to separation of class.
72olnur (December 31, 1969 at 4:59 pm)
you are great,thank youwe will follow

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