For the last two months, WE CARE Solar has been been the subject of presentations at the Unite for Sight conference at Yale Univeristy, a Safe Motherhood conference at Harvard School of Public Health, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Humanitarian Technology Conference in Washington, D.C. A new 5 minute promotional film discussing the challenge of maternal mortality and the WE CARE Solar approach to improving emergency obstetric care can be found by accessing our facebook page or clicking here. You can also paste the following address in your browser (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1029594039096&oid=128083160168&__a=1). (Note: You will need to have a facebook account for this to work.)

Elsa Leads With Her Voice When the Lights Go Out
The darkness affects everything, including communication. “In the dark, we don’t have that detailed conversation we should have,” Elsa says. “We can’t observe each other. I can’t see her expression, and she can’t see mine. Communication becomes unhealthy.”