Palo Alto gets connected
Following a substantial grant from the British Embassy in Costa Rica (which also covers Nicaragua) towards Proyecto Sol, and a new donation from Midland Heart, the Birmingham-based housing association, we were able to extend the solar panel project to yet another community. It’s in the very isolated area between Nicaragua’s two big lakes, called Palo […]
What does it feel like having electricity for the first time?
What does it feel like having electricity for the first time? Idalia Cordoba (see picture) puts it like this. ‘When you regularly have to get up at 3.00 in the morning, more than two hours before dawn, and poke around looking for things with a little torch, you could be sure that the batteries would […]