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Caldwell Rotary Raises $2100 For Navajo Solar Light Project
Living "off the grid" has its benefits, but it also has its problems. And one of those is something many people take for granted: light.
CALDWELL, NJ — Living “off the grid” has its benefits, but it also has its problems. And one of those is something many people take for granted: light.
Recently, the Rotary Club of the Caldwells offered a financial hand up to the Navajo Solar Light Project, a program that brings solar lights to rural areas in the Navajo Nation territory, which sprawls across Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
The Caldwells Rotary and member Sam Kent donated $2,100 to the project, which will help residents of the nation – who call themselves Diné in their own language – to upgrade from kerosene lanterns and candles to solar panels.
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According to a 2016 assessment, about 16,000 homes in the area don’t have access to electricity.
The Caldwells Rotary isn’t the only one pitching in for the effort; clubs from Colorado, Oregon, and South Carolina have been involved in this project for about five years, traveling to the Diné territory twice a year to help install lights.
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