The first two Solar Mammas from the Republic of Palau ,Ms. Iolanny T. Dwight and Ms. Jaelene B. Kebekol visited the Embassy in Manila and met Ambassador Mazumdar on their way to India...

The first two Solar Mammas from the Republic of Palau ,Ms. Iolanny T. Dwight and Ms. Jaelene B. Kebekol visited the Embassy in Manila and met Ambassador Mazumdar on their way to India for a six month course at the Barefoot College at Jaipur, Rajasthan.The project is a part of ITEC Program funded by the Government of India.Trainees under the International Solar Training Program are often illiterate or semi-literate grandmothers who maintain strong roots in their rural villages and play a major role in community development, bringing sustainable electricity to remote, inaccessible villages. Solar electrification reduces CO2 emissions, slow the negative impacts of deforestation and decrease air pollution from burning firewood and kerosene.