Pabitara has used the extra money from her husband’s job to open a soap making factory and employs three other women in the village
Pabitara can now afford to send her daughter to secondary school – before she didn’t have the money.
Pabitara’s husband works in the local noodle making factory – he earns twice as much as he did as a farmer
The local noodle making factory has increased its production by 300% now it has electricity
Pabitara’s house now has electric lightbulbs – so they can have light at night-time – before they had to go to bed when it got dark
The health of Pabitara’s family has improved as they are not breating in smoke from the oil lamps they used to use
Many of Dexa’s friends who don’t live in the village still don’t have electricity as the HEP only provides electricity to the local village
Dexa is Pabiitara’s daughter. She had three sisters, but one died from lung disease.
Dexa just got an award for her Geography homework project
Pabitara has just brought Dexa an icecream as a reward for her hard work
Before HEP Pabitars’s family used to use wood and parufin for energy – this created smoke that was bad for the familiy’s lungs
A new ice cream store has just opened – it uses electric powered fridges
Dexa worked late into the night on her Geography project
Dexa means to learn in Nepalese – it is a common girls name
Last year there was a drought – they had no electricity for 12 hours a day
Climate change is rising temperatures and melting the ice near the village – the locals are increasingly worried about landslides and avalanches
During the Nepal Earthquake the HEP generator was damaged – however because it is appropriate technology a local engineer could fix it
Appropriate technology is technology that is appropriate to the area i.e. it means that if it goes wrong it can be fixed by locals
The locals are proud that their electricity does not produce any greenhouse gases
The Micro HEP was built on a fast flowing steep local stream fed from glaciers – it is perfect for HEP
The micro HEP dam cost less than $20,000 to build and was paid for by aid from the UNDP (united Nations Development Program – this is multilateral aid
The village has become much wealthier due to all the new jobs created and new shops and factories keep opening as a result – this is called a positive multiplier effect
Pabitara lives in Darbang, located between Kathmandu and the Tibetan border in Nepal
