European Commissioner Hedegaard’s video conference with inhabitants of one of the 600 isolated rural communities benefiting from the EURO-SOLAR regional Programme for Latin America

On 1 December 2010 Commissioner Hedegaard, together with his Excellency Jorge Valdez, Ambassador of Peru to the European Union, participated in a video conference in Brussels with representatives of the Sancayuni in Peru, a local community based on an island of the Titicaca Lake and benefiting from the EURO-SOLAR Programme.

This first video link, unthinkable only some months back, was possible thanks to the means provided by EURO-SOLAR. The Sancayuni would speak about their experiences and the great expectations of improvements in their lives. The arrival of clean energy is promising, as is the advance of basic services such as education and health as well as the communication with the outside world and the development of productive activities.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Relations between Peru and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-peru-and-the-european-union/

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