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India’s Barefoot College recruits women from the developing world who’ve never been to school and can’t read or write. After six months of intensive training, they graduate as solar engineers. This powerful story is documented in a new movie called “Solar Mamas.” Here’s a sneak preview:

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Nov 9, 2012

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