Small, Local, Electrical Grids Will Improve Literacy, Family Incomes, Health and Well-being

Women and children will benefit first from a University of Wisconsin-Madison/Bahir Dar University project to bring electricity to remote Ethiopian villages.

“There will be light,” says Belachew Gessesse, assistant professor at Bahir Dar University, “Wherever there is light, there is opportunity to read and write. … This increases literacy. We will have no illiterate children. We will have no illiterate women.”