engineering

He Trained Grandmothers to Become Solar Engineers. They Lit Up Villages

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He Trained Grandmothers to Become Solar Engineers. Then They Lit Up Villages.

At a small college in India, women from some of the world’s most remote villages were learning how to build solar equipment. Many were grandmothers. Some had little formal education, and others couldn’t even speak the same language as their classmates. Yet they were all there to learn something that would change life back home. … Read more

People Were Drowning, So He Spent Decades Building Bridges

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People Were Drowning Trying to Reach School and Clinics — So He Spent Decades Building Bridges

Harmon Parker was working in rural Kenya when a community asked him to help build a footbridge. He had construction skills, but he had not arrived with plans to spend his life building crossings. The request put a practical problem in front of him. People needed to reach schools, clinics and markets on the other … Read more