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10 kW install to power lighting, water pumping, fans, and digital devices in a community-run education center
20 women receiving hands-on solar training, strengthening energy literacy and leadership
Community-led communications efforts will promote just energy transition and environmental justice across the delta
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On Isla Esperanza, families live off-grid and face systemic exclusion from infrastructure and public investment. The community resists this marginalization through collective land stewardship, agroecology, and popular education. Together with Tierra Nativa, they are building a locally rooted, feminist response to the climate crisis — one that centers autonomy, ancestral knowledge, and energy as a basic right.
Tierra Nativa is a feminist, grassroots environmental organization based in Argentina, working at the intersection of energy justice, Indigenous rights, and ecological defense. Their partner, Cooperativa Isleña Isla Esperanza, is a women-led collective located in the Paraná River Delta, one of the most ecologically sensitive and socially underserved regions in the country.
“For us, solar energy isn’t just a sustainable alternative—it’s the only one. It represents our only chance to access basic rights like electricity, household water for various uses, the ability to make it drinkable, the conditions to produce on our land, and to connect with the world. This project will therefore improve the conditions for study and work at our Don Legui School.”
HF Partnership
This project will install a 10 kW off-grid solar system on the roof of a rural community education center in Isla Esperanza, providing reliable electricity for water pumps, lighting, ventilation, and digital learning tools. Through a three-part training series, 20 women from the community will gain knowledge in solar technology and energy management, deepening both technical capacity and political agency. The project also includes a public communications campaign to raise awareness around energy access, climate justice, and feminist organizing in the delta.
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