Solar power lights 100 more Mindanao villages

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BULDON, Shariff Kabunsuan (MindaNews/10 October) – Solar power has lit up houses of at least 80 villagers in this erstwhile main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as a US-funded program vowed to light up 100 more villages in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) next eyear.

Barangay Kulimpang here forms part of the MILF’s Camp Abubakar which fell into government hands in July 2000, four months after the Estrada administration declared an “all-out-war” against the MILF.

Last year, the Alliance for Mindanao Off-Grid Renewable Energy (AMORE) program gave villagers solar panel systems that allow the beneficiaries to now watch television programs of rival networks ABS-CBN and GMA-7.

“Our children can study better at night with these solar-powered systems. Also, I can do household chores at night,” said Bai Dido Macatambog, who has been following GMA-7’s evening telenovela, “Marimar.”

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