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Solar Mamas follows the remarkable story of Rafea Anad, a 32 years old with children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a
Bedouin woman living in a Jordan’s poorest desert villages. She has only five years of primary education, and lives in a tent.
She
challenges the status quo by travelling to go to the Barefoot College
in India, run by the inimitable Roy Bunker, to train as a solar
engineer for six months. Along with 27 other mothers and grandmothers
from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Columbia, and Guatemala - many of whom are
illiterate - she will learn the skills needed to bring solar power to the desert. Rafea struggles to make a difference
in the world.
For
Rafea it is a life changing journey, she has had limited
opportunities in life. Now she is the first Jordanian woman ever to
attend such a program, and she dreams of returning to bring needed income and talents to support her family and the
community. Her new knowledge will see her do things she never
imagined, but it will also have an unexpected effect on her
relationship with her patriarchal husband.
When him
tell Rafea to return home or he will divorce her and take the children,
we recorgnize from the reaction of the women that process has started for
her and she can’t be stopped. That’s pretty amazing. She is
fearless and intelligent.
Addressing
themes of gender equality, education, development and environmental
sustainability the documentary takes look at the ways women around
the world are working to pull themselves out of the poverty.
The
filmakers are Mona Eldaief and Jahane Noujaim, the documentary is
part of "Why Poverty? "(a series of documentaries that tackle the
subject of poverty, focusing on issues such as food security,
education, climate change and more) and "Women and Girls Lead".
Ps:
today Rafea had her fifth daughter. She has continued to work on the
solar project in the village in Jordan.
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