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Solar Mamas

Season 14 Episode 4 | 54m 57s  | Video has closed captioning.

Welcome to India's Barefoot College, founded by Bunker Roy to provide rural women living in poverty with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea — a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four — is traveling outside of her village for the first time to attend Barefoot's solar engineering program.

Aired: 11/05/12

Expired: 11/14/12

Rating: TV-PG

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