Last year, an initiative (called the “Solar Grandmothers”) through the joint effort of UN Women, governments of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Nauru, and Barefoot College of India, recruited 29 women to learn solar engineering skills in the Barefoot College in India on how to set up solar power in their local areas once they were to come back. Very soon now, these women are to return to Fiji to light up their respective villages through solar technology. Read more here.