
Barefoot College by Robert Wallis
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Kamla, age 33, is Rajasthan's first female solar engineer. Starting her education at age 11 in night school, while carrying on with her domestic and farm work, she went on to study solar technology and now runs a rural field station fabricating solar home lighting systems and solar lanterns. Despite her humble background she has travelled to Delhi to speak at National Conferences on solar technology. Here Kamla checks the voltage on rooftop solar panels and cleans the panels at a Barefoot...
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