Yemeni women use solar to light up homes, one village at a time

Trailblazing Yemeni women are using solar power to bring electricity to their villages, and turning profit from the micro-grid solar business into loans to better lives and businesses. — AFP

Ten trailblazing Yemeni women have overcome scepticism and ridicule to bring electricity to their villages, illuminating lives with a micro-grid solar business that they hope to expand across their war-torn region.

In a conservative country wracked by hunger and poverty amid a devastating war that has destroyed most infrastructure, 36-year-old Iman Hadi and her burqa-clad colleagues are achieving what many would have thought unthinkable.