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Nicaragua Takeover: Meet the Community Members

December 17, 2015

Although our projects focus on clean energy and water, the installations have longer-lasting effects on community members. Each system type contributes to healthy lifestyles and can help ease the stresses…

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Nicaragua Takeover: The Technology

December 16, 2015

GE installs a number of different technologies through our Boaco program. My personal favorites are our residential solar installations. These systems have immediate effects for the recipient families, as they…

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Nicaragua Takeover: Meet Our Partners

December 15, 2015

Green Empowerment partners with Managua-based AsoFenix for our projects in the Boaco region of Nicaragua. As part of our program, Green Empowerment and AsoFenix train local technicians to maintain and repair…

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Welcome to our Nicaragua Takeover Week

December 14, 2015

Out in the hills of rural Nicaragua, you’ll find the communities of El Bálsamo, El Jazmín, and El Jocote. These are the sites where I’ve been working for the last…

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18 Years of Green Empowerment Partnerships

November 18, 2015

At Green Empowerment, we’ve always done development a bit differently. We aren’t the only international development agency in rural communities in Latin America and Asia. And we aren’t the only…

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Connections Through Time and Spirit – Reflections on Reading the Death of Ben Linder

October 8, 2015

By Mike KalkofenThe desire to do something meaningful and help people. You hear it a lot these days, especially in the career marketplace, and I can relate because it was…

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My Summer Fellowship by Sneha Saroja Ayyagari

September 29, 2015

Since 2010, Green Empowerment has been partnering with Stanford University to provide sustainable energy students with the opportunity to live abroad and work with one of our international partners through…

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Meet Our Partner: Amenah Lee “Tata” Singson Garcia

September 23, 2015

Community connections and leveraging local leadership are key to the success of Green Empowerment. Today we introduce you to Tata: a Barang Councilor, or village leader, in Maligue, Isabel City,…

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