Keeling Curve

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How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

['Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses)', 'Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption)']

Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

BCI’s training prioritizes women and indigenous women, as we train them exclusively as solar engineers, educators and entrepreneurs. Women are vulnerable to marginalization and gender inequality in rurally poor regions with little access to information resources. In Zanzibar and Tanzania women also suffer the worst effects of climate change, although their entire rurally poor community is also heavily affected. Our program equips women with both the tools and equipment to solar electrify all homes in their communities, but our training also ensures that they are able to implement educational and economic training courses, as well as found small businesses, by training them as educators and entrepreneurs. When seeking to empower marginalized women and left-behind rural communities, the key to success is ensuring that trainees can be genuinely self-sufficient, and own both the skills and the technology of their solutions to energy access, and to educational and economic growth. Our programs are also customizable, to ensure that women and their communities are empowered to choose the type of livelihood training, for example, that they receive, and that their local cultural customs are respected throughout a project. We also offer all female solar engineers the chance to become trainers themselves.

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