Plan International (PI) and the Association for Rural Cooperation in Africa and Latin America (ACRA) have kicked off the training of 21,000 Senegalese women on income-generating activities using renewable energy.

Development Diaries understands that the training is part of the project for the economic and social development of women through renewable energy in the Sahel.

It was gathered that the training was designed to boost rural electrification efforts in a West African country where half the population has no access to electricity.

‘The trainers will be equipped with technical modules in the field of renewable energy and in administrative and financial management, in order to be able to multiply the training to the women targeted by the project’, representative of ACRA in Senegal, Emilia Vavassori, said.

It was also learnt that the project for the economic and social development of women through renewable energy in the Sahel was also being implemented in Niger Republic and Mali.

Source: Afrik21

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