Chambamontera

• Micro-Hydro Scheme:

  • remote community in Andes Mountains, Peru
  • two hour walk to closest town
  • inhabitants rely on subsistence farming, livestock rearing and small scale coffee production
  • no electricity for development (poverty)
  • $51,000 project
• Benefits:

  • reduce reliance on non-sustainable sources
  • minimal maintenance/operation expenses
  • negligible environmental footprint
  • local workforce/materials (economic benefit)
• Improvements:

  • more education opportunities
  • medicine can be refrigerated
  • mitigate flood/fire risks
  • heating for winter
  • higher local population