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Climate Change (GG Green) > Provide Renewable Energy to 22 Colombian families (#2128)
Summary
This micro hydroelectric project will bring electricity and lighting to 22 indigenous families living in rural Minaflores, Colombia, an area under threat by guerillas and paramilitary.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,093 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By Green Empowerment That You Can Help
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The Nasa/Paez people living in Minaflores currently have no access to electicity. Electricity is a basic need that can improve health, increase communication and security, provide lighting, and allow more time for education or work activities. A community-owned micro hydro project in Minaflores will be a sustainable business in this rural village and will improve the quality of life of its citizens.
Green Empowerment will partner with APROTEC (a Colombian NGO) as well as the residents of Minaflores to provide the equipment, manpower, and training needed to build the microhydro project that will bring electricity to villagers in this remote area.
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,093
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,093 . The original project funding goal was $70,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Electricity and lighting will allow 110 indigenous Colombians to connect with the world beyond their isolated village, increase their security, and educate children. The micro hydro project will be a community-owned, sustainable business enterprise.
The Nasa are determined to exercise their autonomy and right to exist, which they've fought for since the arrival of conquistadors. Having microhydro is a way to exercise their "energy autonomy."
- Mauricio Gnecco, Engineer
Anna Garwood
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United States
503-284-5774
http://www.greenempowerment.org
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This project is located in Colombia
and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).
For more information about Colombia, read the Human Development Report on Colombia or the Wikipedia entry for Colombia.
This project was last updated on January 22, 2010.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 24, 2008
By Anna Garwood - Latin America Program Manager, October 16, 2009 09:51 PM
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