Native Women Bring Solar Energy to Chile’s Atacama Desert

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Three indigenous communities from the Chilean highlands have just received solar panels, which will be set up and maintained by unlikely solar engineers: five native women who travelled halfway around the world to India and overcame language and other barriers to bring photovoltaic energy to their villages. Luisa and Liliana Terán are cousins from Caspana, an Atacameña indigenous community; Elena Achú and Elvira Urrelo are from the Quechua village of Ollagüe; and Nicolasa Yufla is an Aymara Indian from Toconce. The three villages, with a combined population of 1,000, are in the Atacama

Montreal foundation making reusable menstrual pads for women in Senegal

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In 2009 when Shara Rosen and some Senegalese friends in Montreal launched the Fondation Sénégal Santé Mobile, which sends medications to community health centres and equipment to birthing centres in some of the country’s most disadvantaged areas. On Thursday afternoon, Rosen and members of the foundation will be in Phillips Square in downtown Montreal to show off their latest project — reusable menstrual pads for teenage girls and women. The event is being held on Menstrual Hygiene Day, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of menstrual hygiene management among girls i