{"id":60084633,"date":"2025-06-06T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/?post_type=photo_story&p=60084633"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:32:42","slug":"indigenous-women-illuminate-guatemalan-communities","status":"publish","type":"photo_story","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/energy\/indigenous-women-illuminate-guatemalan-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous women illuminate Guatemalan communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Catarina Santiago, a 45-year-old Indigenous Ixil woman, was selected to take part in training on solar energy in India, she was afraid. Over four months, she was going to learn to assemble a complete solar energy system, piece by piece. The course would take place in Rajasthan at Barefoot College International<\/a>, an organisation that trains women to become solar energy technicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santiago, a well-known community figure, was selected because of her leadership skills. But she had never left Guatemala, spoke no English, barely any Spanish, and couldn\u2019t read or write. Still, she decided to go for it, leaving her children for six months and travelling to Rajasthan with a Spanish-speaking Indigenous woman. She soon discovered she didn\u2019t need written words: she learned through drawings, signs, and visual examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she returned to P\u2019al, her village in the municipality of Chajul, in north-western Guatemala\u2019s Quich\u00e9 department, Santiago took charge of installing solar systems in her neighbours\u2019 homes. The systems had been donated by the organisation that trained her. She installed a solar panel outside her house, and connected one of the lights it powers to the room where her sister-in-law weaves traditional clothing \u2013 previously by candlelight \u2013 and another to the brick stove she shares with her sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catarina Santiago switches on the light powered by solar energy in her home in P\u2019al, a village in Quich\u00e9 department, north-western Guatemala. The 45-year-old Indigenous Ixil woman received training in solar energy in Rajasthan, India, at Barefoot College International, an organisation that trains women to become solar energy technicians (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Santiago installed solar systems donated by Barefoot College not only in her home, but also that of her neighbours (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Many in Santiago\u2019s community have benefited from having these panels installed, like her sister-in-law, who previously weaved traditional clothes by candlelight (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Magdalena V\u00ed Ram\u00edrez, 22, received a solar energy system and asked Santiago to use one of the solar lights to illuminate her one-bedroom home, and another to illuminate her small shop. This allowed her to better care for her two children and more efficiently serve her customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barefoot College: bringing light to those who need it most<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Barefoot College International was founded in 1972 by Indian educator and social activist Sanjit \u201cBunker<\/a>\u201d Roy. The idea was to provide educational opportunities to women in remote rural areas. The initiative grew, and women from other countries were subsequently invited to train in India. In 2022, seven years after Santiago\u2019s trip to India, Barefoot College opened a training centre \u2013 its first and so far only branch in Latin America. The centre\u2019s director, B\u00e1rbara P\u00e9rez, says the Central American country was selected due to the serious needs of its remote Indigenous communities. P\u00e9rez said that getting electricity into homes is vital for communities\u2019 development, specifically in the Ixil region, which includes San Gaspar Chajul, Santa Mar\u00eda Nebaj, and San Juan Cotzal municipalities in Quich\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mountains in Sacapulas, Quich\u00e9 department. The topography of the region means many Indigenous communities are isolated and lack a connection to the electrical grid (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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In these communities, cooking is typically done with firewood, creating a lot of smoke at home and impacting inhabitants\u2019 health (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

With the opening of the centre, Guatemalan women of various ages, marital statuses and literacy levels, chosen by their community leaders, no longer have to travel to India to become solar technicians. The 10-12 women selected annually train at the centre for 10 weeks. They learn about renewable energy, agroecology, and sustainable business \u2013 essential training for them to later install the panels in their own communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Food Programme (WFP) helps<\/a> with identifying potential trainees from the communities it has previously prioritised for care, where electricity is lacking. It also assists with importing the solar equipment manufactured in India and transporting it to the villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from several international organisations such as WFP, the Puma Energy Foundation, Turner & Townsend, and Mite<\/a>, 34 women have so far been trained in Guatemala, and 475 solar energy systems have been installed. In the coming months, the 2025 cohort is expected to install a further 350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A student assembles a solar lamp during the course at Barefoot College in Batzul, Chajul municipality. So far, 34 women have completed the training, and collectively installed 475 solar energy systems in their communities (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the most unexpected and striking testimonies P\u00e9rez received, when asking some of the women how their lives have changed with solar energy at home, was from one who said she can now use the outdoor latrine at night thanks to the portable solar lamps they learned to assemble. \u201cNow that I no longer have to hold back the urge to go to the bathroom at night, I no longer get sick [from urinary tract infections],\u201d she told P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difficulties of the area and a lack of electricity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In Chajul, home to the training centre, the majority of its nearly 47,000 inhabitants<\/a> are Ixil Maya. Many survive or make a living from crops such as beans and corn, livestock production, crafts and textiles. Around 90% live in poverty, according to data from the 2023 National Survey of Living Conditions and official poverty maps<\/a>. The Ixil Maya people were also victims of a genocide<\/a> during the 36-year civil war, leaving deep traumas that still exist today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity coverage in Quich\u00e9 department is 83%, and in Chajul municipality it is between 80 and 90%. However, in the municipalities of Nebaj and Cotzal, \u201cthe coverage rate is critical, below 80%\u201d, according to the energy ministry\u2019s 2023<\/a> National Electricity Coverage Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many crosses can be seen in Cotzal\u2019s catholic church, bearing the names of those abducted and killed in the genocide of Ixil Maya people that took place in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996 (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Felipe L\u00f3pez (left) and Sebasti\u00e1n Chel (right), both members of the P\u2019al\u2019s Community Council for Urban and Rural Development, and the village\u2019s assistant mayor Sebasti\u00e1n Brito (centre), say that more solar energy systems are required in P\u2019al, as several young people have recently married and need electricity for their families (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A lack of power affects people\u2019s \u201cliving conditions, health, education, and safety\u201d, the report states. Barriers to electricity reaching communities include the topography of towns, high costs of expanding the network, and the poverty that prevents people from paying for the service, it adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Community Council for Urban and Rural Development of P\u2019al, where Catarina Santiago lives, say that when night falls, those who lack electricity may light a candle or lantern to finish their chores. Others will simply go to sleep, waiting for the first rays of sunlight to help them complete or begin tasks that are impossible in the dark. Sebasti\u00e1n Brito, P\u2019al\u2019s assistant mayor, and Felipe L\u00f3pez and Sebasti\u00e1n Chel, president and secretary of the council, say more solar energy systems need to be installed in the community, where \u201cseveral young people have married and started new homes that also need electricity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hands on: women become solar technicians <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a room lit by an emergency generator \u2013 the power was down on the day Dialogue Earth visited the training centre in Batzul \u2013 12 Mayan women sit around a rectangular table. They are members of the 2025 cohort of the solar programme, completing their final task: assembling a portable solar lamp. In front of them are loose parts and an instruction manual with numbered images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mayan women of the solar programme\u2019s 2025 cohort complete the final task of the 10-week training, at Barefoot College Guatemala, with support from teachers who are former students of the programme (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Manuals with numbered images are provided to students assembling the parts, as not all of them speak Spanish (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Students not only learn about clean energy and how to assemble solar systems, but also build their self-esteem and awareness of their rights and capabilities. Women in Guatemala \u2013 particularly from Indigenous communities \u2013 face discrimination, poverty and a lack of opportunities (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Without looking at the blackboards which decorate the classroom with posters of energy, voltage, current data, and formulas, they concentrate. They secure screws firmly and connect circuits skilfully. Despite speaking different Mayan languages, they understand each other without difficulty, and help each other without hesitation. Their Spanish is limited, but the collaboration is nonetheless fluid. Two teachers \u2013 former students of the same programme \u2013 support them silently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women in Guatemala continue to face discrimination, poverty and a lack of opportunities. Mayan and Indigenous women are particularly disadvantaged. They have less access to the formal education system and an illiteracy rate of over 60%, according to a 2021 study<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internationally, Barefoot College exclusively trains women \u2013 particularly those from Indigenous communities, who represent 13.5%<\/a> of the population in Guatemala \u2013 to combat this severe gender gap. In its solar programme, students not only learn about clean energy and how to build solar systems, but also strengthen their self-esteem and awareness of their rights and capabilities. They do this through Enrich, <\/em>a programme offered alongside the technical course that covers entrepreneurship skills, financial education, health and well-being, social equity, and technological literacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndigenous women leaving their communities is frowned upon by their families and neighbours, even when the reason [why] is explained to them,\u201d explains Ixmukan\u00e9 Caba, an Ixil agroforestry engineer who leads the programme and works as a field technician at the Guatemala office. \u201cThere is still a lot of machismo in Guatemala, and their self-esteem needs to be strengthened so they can defend themselves.\u201d Today, electricity remains scarce, but the women\u2019s energy is abundant. On the last day of the course, a few of the women hold up their lit lamps and share what this training experience far from home has meant to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The centre\u2019s chef, Catarina P\u00e9rez, cooks in the dark due to a power cut on the last day of the programme (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Carolina Galicia, a former student from the first cohort of the Barefoot College Guatemala course, now teaches on the programme (Image: Edwin Solares<\/a> \/ Dialogue Earth)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy because I learned about solar energy, because I met and shared with other women, and because when I return to my village, Palop Chiquito, several of my neighbours will have solar light. I\u2019ll light up my bedroom and my kitchen,\u201d says Juana Brito, 33, who only speaks Ixil. \u201cI\u2019m happy because thanks to what I\u2019ve learned, I\u2019ll be able to return and better serve my people,\u201d adds Petrona Caba, 23, from the village of Santa Clara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Carolina Galicia, 24, a former student from the first cohort of Barefoot College Guatemala\u2019s programme, expresses her gratitude at being hired as a teacher this year. \u201cI only studied up to sixth grade; I didn\u2019t even know how to hold a screw,\u201d she says. \u201cBut thank God everything went well, and I was able to share with the participants everything I learned here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with Brito and Caba, 10 other women from the Ixil, Awakateco, and K\u2019iche\u2019 communities in the departments of Quich\u00e9 and Huehuetenango received their certificate of achievement as solar technicians. From now on, they will be responsible for providing light to their families and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Barefoot College Guatemala faces significant challenges in securing funding to continue providing these vital programmes, and must continue establishing partnerships with institutions and organisations, both private and governmental, at both local and international levels. It\u2019s not just to cover the running costs of the project itself; the team must also collect and transport the solar energy systems donated to the communities, along with the toolkits the students use to assemble and repair them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re currently conducting one annual training session, but we\u2019d like to have three, with 16 students per cohort,\u201d P\u00e9rez says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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