The electrification of remote villages in the north of Pakistan, introduced by another NGO, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP), shows how three simple ingredients — running water, community organisation and some technical know-how — can help women.
The district of Chitral and the northern areas of Pakistan lie where the Karakoram, the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush mountain ranges meet.
When AKRSP first arrived in this isolated area in the 1980s, it found villages scattered up mountainsides with erratic or no connection to the national grid, and local people demanding electricity. Until then, light came from pinewood torches and expensive kerosene lights.
via The East African – www.theeastafrican.co.ke.
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