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Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea, a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six... months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village.
Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea, a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six... months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village.
| Series: | Why poverty? |
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| Episode | 6 |
| First transmission date: | 02-12-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:06 |
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| Producers: | Jehane Noujaim; Mona Eldaie |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/international-development/ou-on-the-bbc-why-poverty |
| Production number: | FKIN631Y |
| Videofinder number: | 83357 |
| Available to public: | no |
