Today our team monitored a few classes of the electricity technician and solar maintenance programs we helped our colleagues here in Aswan develop. This class was about safety of working at heights. On the roof of the building a few solar panels are installed for instruction purposes; the cords go into the building for that purpose; would be done a bit different in Canada with more strict regulations....
And storage of materials would also be organized a bit different. But the project now has already achieved that these short programs (10 weeks) are being delivered and assist unemployed youth with new opportunities in the local job market. The classrooms have the training boards for electrical training and a few solar panels for instruction sessions.
These are some of the first panels in the city of Aswan, a city with a population of about 300,000 in the far south of Egypt. Nearby large new solar farms are being constructed in the desert; this will be an area of economic growth for the region. We had meetings with the instructors and we visited a music program where I signed up....
And after a busy day I had some time for a nice walk along the river Nile near our hotel.....
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