Please Donate Now For the last 40 years, IDEAS (Institute for Development, Evaluation, Assistance and Solutions), has worked alongside poor women and their families around the world to help break the cycle of poverty and create a better economic future for the children. IDEAS, newest economic program, TecAp, is a microfranchise providing solar energy. It […]
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HELP POOR WOMEN AND YOUTH IN NICARAGUA OVERCOME POVERTY Do you care about erasing poverty, supporting women entrepreneurs, youth solar installers or helping the environment?
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Technologies
Another major part of TecAp’s work is identifying technologies that are appropriate for low income rural families. These technologies save time, energy, and/or money, are environmentally sustainable, are affordable, and often times are sourced from local materials.
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Advocacy
TecAp represents the interests of low-income farmers A significant part of TecAp’s work is advocating on behalf of low-income farmers, cooperatives, and local governments in order to ensure that they are receiving fair treatment in terms of renewable energy investments. TecAp assures that low-income farmers are administered a proper needs assessment to determine their electrical […]
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Our TecAp team
[av_one_half first] [av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Dr. Carter Garber Dr. Garber is the founding General Manager of TecAp. He is a serial social entrepreneur who has founded more than 20 social enterprises including microfinance institutions and a credit union, two microfinance investment vehicles, consulting entities, a network for social enterprises, educational institutes, and periodicals.
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Mission & Vision
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Expansion Plans
Through the initial pilot phase in the second half of 2011, it became obvious very quickly that these solar-powered items were in high demand and that rural women were perfectly capable of promoting and selling these new technologies. It was also apparent that the women microfranchisees could make what is to them a significant amount […]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Microfranchisees are rural women from fair trade coffee cooperatives that possess the basic skills and motivation to promote solar and other appropriate technologies and sell small solar-powered items door to door. Microfranchisees are recruited in groups of 5-10 women per group. These women are vetted by the management of their coffee […]