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IDEAS (The Institute for Development, Evaluation, Assistance and Solutions) is a 40 year-old non-profit that has worked in community development on four continents. For more than two decades it has been working in Nicaragua, the second poorest country in western hemisphere. About 1.7 million Nicaraguans live without electricity far away from the national electric grid. […]

Rural Youth’s Lives Are Changed Forever As They Become Nationally Certified Income-Generating Solar Technicians The TecAp Youth Solar Technician Education Program trains low-income youth in Nicaragua’s rural fair trade coffee growing communities to diagnose, install, repair, and maintain solar powered systems in homes, farms and cooperatives that have no access to electricity. Every year, newly […]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Profiles of some of the Solar Micro Technicians trained by and working with TecAp  We have trained and graduated 76 rural youth as solar installers and repairers. They are certified by the National Technical Institute (INATEC). They are youth from low income families who would not have been able to obtain […]

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Youth micro-technicians: TecAp’s second type of microfranchisees TecAp is one of the first microfranchises or even commercial franchises worldwide to have two different types of microfranchisees. The two sets of microfranchisees mutually reinforce each other The two types of microfranchisees are mutually reinforcing in selling solar energy  TecAp has launched a second […]