Electrify schools with solar power in agricultural communities in Guatemala to improve education and take climate action; preventing school dropouts and migration.
The lack of access and coverage to basic services such as electricity in rural communities in the last mile of Guatemala has a direct effect on school dropouts and early migration, the digital divide, gender participation, and poor development. of communities and the environment.
Provide photovoltaic solar energy to educational establishments that will allow children, adolescents and young people to have access to illuminated classrooms and the operation of a computer laboratory; significantly improving the educational quality they currently receive and significantly reducing the digital divide in remote communities. With the constant use of this eco-technology, communities offset the carbon footprint generated by the excessive use of electric generators based on fossil
Solar Centers is a sustainable project where we design, involve and work with women and all the decision-making structures of the community, we create fundraising plans for the maintenance and replacement of the system components when they reach their useful life; Ensuring thereby that new generations of students of all educational levels will benefit and continue using the computer laboratories, raising their academic level in relation to the current one, allowing the comprehensive development
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