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TecAp solves a financial problem so the poor have access to valuable, life-changing technologies TecAp works to identify solar and other appropriate technologies and to make those technologies available and affordable for the people that need them most. Some of the technologies that TecAp is looking into include solar energy, smokeless stoves (“improved cook stoves”), […]
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-A business that is easily replicable by low income microfranchisees with little formal education -A tested business that meets a market demand at prices her neighbors are willing to pay -Guaranteed income margin to the microfranchisees so they can help their children with needed expenses like school fees, food, clothing, etc. -Assists the women to […]
IDEAS has trained 76 “micro-technicians,” who are youth and women to be trained formally in how to diagnose the size, install & repair the solar roof-top systems. This provides them new employment while providing a local repair person for the hundreds of systems that have been installed but not gotten repair because the technicians live […]
High quality coffee is grown in the mountains, often far away from the national electrical grid. One third of all Nicaraguan families do not have access to conventional electricity. Low income women and their families who have bought solar systems found three major types of benefits. 1) Benefits to the family: Family health improves by […]
TecAp Technical Coordinator Hermogenes Zelaya presented at a regional microfinance conference on Tuesday June 25 in Panajachel, Guatemala. The conference was hosted by Red Katalysis, a network of 22 microfinance institutions throughout Central America. This was the first international event attended by TecAp and proved to be an extremely valuable tool for sharing the knowledge […]
Nohemí Barahona, 49, is one of the first microfranchisees to sell solar powered products in the rural areas of Murra, bordering Honduras. She sells lanterns, cell phone chargers & lamps. Her community was once the scene of fierce fighting by the Contras, the rebel group in the 1980s that fought the Nicaraguan government. Murra is […]
“My Kiva fellowship recently brought me to Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, where approximately 75% of the rural population does not have access to grid electricity. A significant portion of my time in Nicaragua will involve working with an exciting new partner named Tecnosol. Tecnosol is the Central American leader in the sale and installation […]
TecAp assists women in rural Nicaragua to become microfranchisees. These rural women receive training on sales and marketing strategies so that they can successfully sell solar-powered products and promote larger systems of solar energy and labor saving technologies to their neighbors. This has succeeded in improving their incomes and their neighbors’ quality of life in […]
One of the biggest obstacles for a low income coffee producer to buy a roof-top solar system is obviously the cost. IDEAS partnership with the coffee cooperatives and fair trade coffee companies has allowed the farmers to obtain longer term financing with payments that are compatible with the coffee growing season. For example, Root Capital […]