Yemen’s ‘microgrid girls’ power community amid war and COVID-19 | Yemen News

“The role of women was housework only,” laments Huda Othman Hassan, a young woman from Abs, a rural district in the north of Yemen, near the border with Saudi Arabia. “Although we are educated and university graduates, we had no decision-making power and couldn’t work in any field.” But now a new project is helping shift those norms. Last year, Othman and nine other women in Abs set up a solar