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India: let there be light

Posted on: 23 April 2010 - 11:29am

Like most hill women in the Indian state of Orissa, Pulka Wadeka can’t read or write.

Then again, thanks to five months specialist training funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development, she can set up and operate a solar-powered 12-volt electricity system.

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