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Women are bringing solar energy to thousands of Indian villages

India is trying to bring electricity to hundreds of millions of its citizens who live off the grid. And it's trying to ensure that the power comes from clean and renewable sources. Frontier Markets is helping to achieve both those goals in the Western desert state of Rajasthan, selling solar-powered products to hundreds of villages. The company is thriving by turning its customers into salespeople. The company employs women to sell products like lamps, stoves, and even TVs that run on solar power through a program called Solar Sahelis (Solar Friends). Each woman is in charge of sell

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This product new product helps Indian women stand and pee in dirty public toilets

Source: Younews

Public toilets are a curse for all women in the World. Every single woman thinks ten times before using a public toilet because most of them are unhygienic and we women have to sit and pee. Now an invention by three Indian men called Pee Buddy may change the way women pee once for all. For those times when we need to stand and pee. Here's what the founders say about the product: “Loos in India are unclean and the chances of contracting infectious diseases are high. So, we launched ‘PeeBuddy’ which is India’s first portable urine director. A revolutionary eco-friendly product, Pee