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The project intends to build a constituency that supports and utilizes solar power as a source of energy by way of creating an enabling mechanism within the solar value chain. This will be done by capacitating the Senior High School (SHS) of the Department of Education in the delivery of quality Electrical Installation and Maintenance (EIM) course, which incorporates solar power installation and maintenance as a course offering for SHS learners. This will lead to creating a pool of skilled solar power technicians in the community who may advocate to more households to adopt solar power for their energy needs.

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Access to solar energy will empower traditionally underrepresented groups. In the Philippines, bringing solar power energy, especially to the remotest and impoverished communities, is a fundamental human right. Households in these communities usually source their light and electricity from fossil-fuel burning kerosene lamps or diesel generators. 

To connect the poorest and hardest-to-reach households, off-grid solutions, such as solar lighting, solar home systems, and mini grids, will be crucial in uplifting the lives of the disadvantaged off-grid communities, while taking care of the environment by reducing the CO2 emission. This will mean schools will be powered, and therefore children and youth will have access to digital learning especially at this time COVID; health clinics can maintain cold chain facilities; filter drinking water; cook food; and assist children who study at night. 

As an approach, the project will build a pool of skilled solar power technician that can serve as advocates in the propagation of solar power utilization to help mitigate the medium or long term effects of climate change. In so doing, they will wittingly or unwittingly help spread the awareness of caring for the environment and adopt measures that will help preserve it. In all these, education will be the most potent mechanism to drive the climate movement and the youth and women can be the effective emissaries of the environment.

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