Why Poverty?
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- Episode
- Solar Mamas
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (58 mins)
- Description
- Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea - a mother-of-four from Jordan who challenges the status quo of her traditional marriage by travelling to India to train as a solar engineer for six months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers from poor communities around the world - many of whom are illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring electricity and light back to her village. For Rafea, this will be a life changing journey. As the second wife of a Bedouin husband living in a remote part of the Jordanian desert, she has had limited opportunities in life. Now she has been selected to attend the Barefoot College in India run by the inimitable Roy Bunker. Alongside women from Kenya, Burkina Faso and Colombia and across cultural and language divides, Rafea will need to get to grips with electrical components, circuit boards and soldering. Rafea’s new knowledge will see her do things she never imagined, but it will also have an unanticipated effect on her relationship with her patriarchal husband. Addressing themes of education, gender equality, environmental sustainability and development, Solar Mamas is an inspiring and compelling look at poverty - and the ways women around the world are working to pull themselves out of the poverty trap.
- Genre
- International Development; Social Work; Health and Social Care
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Why Poverty?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83357 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)