Rural Women Energy Security (RUWES)

Rural Women Energy Security (RUWES) is a project of the Renewable Energy Programme, launched by the Ministry of Environment on December 10, 2013.[1][2]

Goals

The RUWES project aims at providing rural women with access to clean energy. This goes hand in hand with educational endeavors.[3]

Members

More than 1.36 million Nigerian women have registered under the RUWES project, including the Nigeria Market Women Association, the Federation of Muslim Women, the Catholic Women Organization and the Police Officers Wives among others.

References

  1. ↑ , Federal Ministry of Information.
  2. ↑ , Vanguard Nigeria.
  3. ↑ , Federal Ministry of Environment: Renewable Energy Programme.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.