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Women entrepreneurs are often an under-tapped force that can rekindle economic expansion while driving positive social change. Solar Sister, for instance, an organization started by Ashoka Fellow Katherine Lucey, is empowering women to become an active part of the grassroots clean energy economy, both as sellers and users of affordable and high-quality solutions. By training women who live in remote areas in Sub-Saharan Africa to be micro-entrepreneurs and sell clean energy access to their peers, Solar Sister has put the key to inclusive development in the hands of the ones who suffer most from the exclusion. The network encompasses more than 2,500 Solar Sisters across Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria, who have reduced the in-house pollution of over half a million people.

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