Comments on: Barefoot College Bedouin Women Bring Solar Power to Jordan https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:24:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tafline Laylin https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-15047 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:56:53 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-15047 In reply to Raouf Dabbas.

Thank you so much Raouf for your response. Will you keep us posted on the progress?

]]> By: Raouf Dabbas https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-14921 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:08:08 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-14921 Yes, the proud women from the Eastern Jordanian dessert are back home. They are fiercely committed to their dream of having their own source of sustainable income for them and their families and providing electricity for their village. last week we met in their village (about 300 Km East of the capitol Amman)with both the village elders and residents and together with the NGO working in that area prepared a work plan for moving forward. The plan includes setting up their own cooperative, getting training on how to manage the cooperative, setting up the training, maintenance and equipment storage area and empowering the villagers to support the project. We have submitted the project to several donors and hopefully soon we will have a response for the initial amount needed to get started.
Raouf Dabbas
Senior Advisor
Ministry of Environment
Jordan

]]> By: Solar Power Charles https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-14584 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:06:35 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-14584 I will !!

]]> By: Arwa https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-14569 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:33:20 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-14569 Thanks for comments Taf and Charles! I was so excited about this project that it was actually fun tracking down the women to speak to them- I really really hope that they get the support to get solar power off the ground in their villages because its a real and viable solution.
Like Charles says, we need to promote this project so that they can get some sponsors for the initial equipment..
Spread the word people 🙂

]]> By: Solar Power Charles https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-14550 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:44:24 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-14550 It’s a wonderful idea. Providing sustainable solution in the poorest countries in order to help them in a both economical and ecological way. Electricity is at the heart of an economic development, it will definitely help these people in their daily lives and will allow them to create a new start.
It’s important, now to promote this kind of mission, and find more and more sponsers.

]]> By: Tafline Laylin https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/03/bedouin-women-solar-power/#comment-14536 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:27:07 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=43609#comment-14536 Arwa, this is an incredible article, both in content and delivery. What a fantastic program – one that really does have the power to transform whole villages. Socks duly blown off.

]]>