Project presentation
In Nepal, during the dry season (November to March), female and male farmers face difficulties irrigating their fields. Solutions such as thermal pumps exist, but they consume a lot of energy and cause significant pollution. Other more manual solutions create an additional burden for women farmers, as they are usually the ones responsible for fetching water.
Electriciens sans frontières aims to make solar pumping solutions more accessible, allowing farmers to produce more in an environmentally friendly way. The distribution of irrigation systems will be carried out by the local partner organization Kalpavriksha (KGG), which runs a network of “women entrepreneurs” (called Suryamukhis) for distributing hygiene products and household equipment in rural areas.
The project also seeks to empower these women entrepreneurs by training them in the sale of renewable technology—a growing and attractive sector. Indeed, Nepali women face significant inequalities: they are rarely landowners, have lower literacy rates than men, and have limited access to training.
