Green | September 17, 2007 | Comment on this video (11)

Solar Success!

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Using solar lamps and determination, the women on this impoverished island in Bangladesh create a better life for them, their families, and their communities.
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  • bakpa79
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      bakpa79  

    • This is awesome. Does anyone have information on the company who set this up?
      This can really be a framework for being social justice, sustainable technologies, and marketable skills to small communities.

    • 3 years ago
  • PSL
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      PSL  
    • bakpa79:

      hi there,
      sorry for the very very belated reply to your question..
      the company responsible for all of this is Prokaushali Sangsad Limited (PSL) and their website is: http://www.psldhaka.net/
      the site is probably not updated to current events, but it would at least give you an idea of what they do, have done and are doing.
      and if you have any other questions, you can ask me as well! my two aunts are the ones who run PSL, which has been in the family for years,... and i'm Rabab, the narrator/writer of the documentary. :)

    • 2 years ago
  • senistar
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      senistar  

    • Solar is the future, as it was in the past! How could we have gone wrong for so long is beyond me. Satan has ruled over fools!

    • 4 years ago
  • Julie_Soller
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      Julie_Soller  

    • Beautiful cinematographically, as well as uplifting and educational. I would have loved to see an interview with a young girl (we did see one with a young boy) about how she feels seeing her mother do such important work. Bravo.

    • 4 years ago
  • nwillens
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      nwillens  

    • A wonderful initiative because it not only makes these people self sustainable but convinces the community (and the individuals themselves) that they can rise out of their poverty/desperation through their own competence and skill!

    • 4 years ago
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  • cbritain
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      cbritain  

    • This pod has an interesting approach to addressing character, grouping the women of Char Mantaz into one united body instead of picking out a particular individual to make us care about or feel invested in the piece. Instead of getting to know one character, we see one big character in a front of empowered women, a character that gets this amazing goal accomplished in their underdeveloped home. We quickly learn a lot about this group: despite their society's negative response to their straying from the path of Bengal gender roles, this group of women band together and work to finally achieve their goal. An empowering story with an empowering unified character, all achieved within two and a half minutes.

    • 4 years ago
  • mcamargo
  • sloan
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      sloan  

    • Bangladesh is so cool! -- a poor country, absolutely jam-packed with people, of little strategic interest -- and yet it's home to some of the most innovative & human-scale approaches to development anywhere. Fantastic pod.

    • 4 years ago
  • Emily_RS
  • Tori
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      Tori  

    • It's good for the environment and promotes gender equity - talk about a win win, huh?! What a great piece! If we're going to address this global warming thing...we need to multiply this by a hundred and get it going all over the world.

    • 4 years ago
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