Solar Energy Lights for Women in Rural Pakistan
SummaryThis project provides solar lights to earthquake-affected homes with school-aged children by a group of women. The lights replace unhealthy, expensive options with affordable and healthy indoor air. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Each family sacrifices 20% of income on environmentally harmful solutions such as candles, forest wood, or kerosene lamps in rural Pakistan. The night brings crippling effects: children and young girls are unable to study, and women are powerless to continue small-home based businesses, furthering illiteracy and poverty in this mountainous region. Our project provides light in homes to improve literary, women’s home-based small business, and care for the environment in underserved rural areas.
Activities
Women community workers receive training and access to solar lights to distribute to women in her community. Community workers conduct sessions with women villagers on sustainable energy, and education on iodine-deficiency, nutrition and hygiene.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $200
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $19,800
Total Funding Goal: $20,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project impacts 3,000 people, mostly women and children through a systematic outreach of 30 community workers who engage 300 women to effect social, environmental and micro-economic improvement in each home.
Project Message
“Our children will be able to study at night, our women would be able to purse other works, we would have a chance to access clean energy ”.
- Shazia Zia, Chikar Lady Health worker.
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Ambreen Rahman
Energy and Women's Initiative Coordinator
5161 Lerner 2920 Broadway
New York , NY 10027
United States
281-799-8817
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Comprehensive Disaster Response Services
Chikar Rural Health Center
Chikar,
District Muzaffaraba
131000
Pakistan
011-92-58840-42059
http://www.cdrspakistan.org
Comprehensive Disaster Response Services's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Pakistan
and can also be found under 
Women and Girls.
For more information about Pakistan, read the Human Development Report on Pakistan or the Wikipedia entry for Pakistan.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 4, 2009
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