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Latin America | Chile | Activism

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
Asia | Mongolia | Adventure

Badass Women Battle Untamed Mongolian River

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Ocean-sized waves, unreliable navigation, and corrupt officials were just some of the challenges National Geographic grantee, Amber Valenti, faced during her 2,700-mile trip along the Amur River. Valenti, along with three other women, chose to travel the entirety of the Amur through Mongolia and Russia because of the river’s unique nature. “It’s the third longest free-flowing river left on our planet, and with 60 percent of the world’s rivers being dammed now, it was an opportunity to see something that’s truly last of its kind,” Valenti says. But the beauty of the Amur was o
Africa | Kenya | Environment

Single mom wins top prize for forcing toxic plant closure

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Phyllis Omido, a Kenyan single mother, has won the prestigious annual Goldman environmental prize for her arduous but ultimately successful campaign against a battery recycling plant that was exposing inhabitants of a community in the port city of Mombasa to lead poisoning. As an employee of the factory and, therefore, regularly exposed to its harmful toxic effects, Omido was pushed to act after her own baby son was diagnosed with lead poisoning that he received from the breast milk she had been feeding him. She immediately quit her job to launch a concerted campaign, along with other a
South Asia | Nepal | Environment

Women Lead on Conservation in Nepal

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Helping others be healthy is only one of the responsibilities Devi KC has taken on in her remote village, where she serves as a community health volunteer. She is 35 years old, and one of approximately 50,000 people trained in everything from sanitation and nutrition to modern hygiene. Devi lives in Khata, within the long, narrow Terai Arc landscape, which spans nearly 20,000 square miles of northern India and southern Nepal. The region holds endangered one-horned rhinos, elephants and the world’s largest concentration of tigers. Communities here depend on the forest for food, water and s

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