Aeta grandmas to train as solar engineers

Seven grandmothers from Aeta communities in the provinces of Tarlac, Zambales and Abra, who all can neither read nor write, have been selected to attend a training program in a college in India and become ‘solar engineers’. They comprise the first batch from the Philippines and are headed for an alternative school called The Barefoot College in India. “What the poor thought important is reflected in the college,” said Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of Barefoot College and listed among the 100 most influential persons by TIME Magazine in 2010.



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