Promoting Literacy and Protection with Solar Lamps in Yemen

By distributing solar lamps to vulnerable rural women in Yemen, we promoted enrollment in literacy programs, as well as reading among their children. We saw a number of secondary benefits as well: safer households where dangerous kerosene lamps were used less frequently in the evening; a number of l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jerry Farrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Security Governance 2014-04-01
Series:Stability : International Journal of Security and Development
Online Access:http://www.stabilityjournal.org/article/view/235