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Energy is a Human Right: Solar Power as a Fundamental Enabler of Sustainable Development
Part of the Global Philanthropy Series

Wed, 26 Mar, 2008 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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<p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ebae06 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #ebae06 2px solid; MARGIN-TOP: 10px; FLOAT: left; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #ebae06 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 10px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ebae06 2px solid" src="view.image?Id=1575" width="100" />In the industrialized world, we take electricity for granted: flip a switch and there’s light. For hundreds of millions of Africans living in small towns and villages, however, when night falls, so does a curtain of darkness. What illumination there may be comes from the meager light of candles or smoky kerosene candles. Of course, electricity can do much more than generate clean, bright light. It can also power the vaccine refrigerator in the regional clinic, the pump for safe drinking water in the village square, the computers in the district school, and the machines and tools used in a local microenterprise. </p><p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px">Grid power won’t reach much of rural Africa in our lifetimes, but the solar power solution can – <em>and is</em>. Bob Freling joins the Council to describe the work he is doing to bring modern energy to rural villages in Africa and other parts of the developing world.</p><p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px">Bob Freling is executive director of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization that has been on the cutting edge of using solar technology to improve the lives of rural communities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the South Pacific. A native of Dallas, Freling holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian Studies from Yale University and a master’s degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at USC. </p><p style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 16pt; COLOR: #a00008; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt" align="center">- Registration for this event is now closed. -<br />A waiting list will be started at the event. </p><p> </p>
Location: Rosewood Crescent Hotel<br>
(400 Crescent Ct., Dallas, TX. 75201)<br><br>
6:00PM Registration & Reception<br>
6:30PM Program
Fees: $35 Members & Non-Members
Contact: Sponsored by Billingsley Company; Co-sponsored with the Communities Foundation of Texas; In cooperation with The Chiapas Project
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