Greenpeace Arab World members, solar energy trainees and women from the cooperative pose with the Mayor of Deir Kanoun Ras el Ain and with Head of Municipality of Dar Kanoon. A banner reads in Arabic “Let’s go solar'.
In the small southern Lebanese village of Deir Kanoun Ras el Ain, on International Women’s Day 2017, a quiet revolution is under way: 23 working women in an agricultural cooperative were suffering from severe electricity shortage, but a new solar installation project financed through a crowd funding campaign changed all that.