How Women in the Pacific Are Leading Climate Change and Disaster Relief Efforts

How Women in the Pacific Are Leading Climate Change and Disaster Relief Efforts

17 JUNE 2014

Reapi Waitaleca is a grandmother in the village of Nabouwalu on the Fijian island of Kadavu. She is also a trained solar engineer who has installed solar panels for all the households in her village and established a solar workshop. She is now training an 18-year-old high school graduate as an apprentice engineer.

“On Saturday, I was busy with washing so I asked her [trained young woman] to fix the charge controller in the communal hall and she fixed it,” beams Reapi.



Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/how-women-in-the-pacific-are-leading-climate-change-and-disaster-relief-efforts.html#ixzz34vjTwGHs

Source: Care2

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