BRING THE SUN HOME
Director CHIARA Andrich
Countries Italy
Duration 60 min
Synopsis
The heart of this documentary is the training for a group of women of South America sent to the Barefoot College of Tilonia in India, to become solar engineers. The College, founded by Bunker Roy, is supported by Enel Green Power in order to bring solar energy to the most isolated rural villages of Central and South America. Some women attending the program in India are illiterate, they do not speak English and they can not communicate with each other.It seems impossible they can succeed in installing solar panels.At the same time in southern Peru and northern Chile, on the other side of the world, other women, just came back from India, are “bringing the sun home”.
The heart of this documentary is the training for a group of women of South America sent to the Barefoot College of Tilonia in India, to become solar engineers. The College, founded by Bunker Roy, is supported by Enel Green Power in order to bring solar energy to the most isolated rural villages of Central and South America. Some women attending the program in India are illiterate, they do not speak English and they can not communicate with each other.It seems impossible they can succeed in installing solar panels.At the same time in southern Peru and northern Chile, on the other side of the world, other women, just came back from India, are “bringing the sun home”.