Solar panels help kids learn in rural Argentina

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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/americas/features/article_1377850.php/Solar_panels_help_kids_learn_in_rural_Argentina

Buenos Aires - The poor, arid, rural Argentine landscape glistens with solar panels and windmills these days.

And the first to benefit are the children of this South American country's most remote and deprived schools.

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PERMER provides 80 per cent of the cost of installing clean energy resources, with the remaining 20 per cent put forward by the Argentine Education Ministry. The subsequent upkeep is usually left to provincial authorities.

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PERMER really only got going in 2003, after an interruption caused by Argentina's severe economic crisis, and has already given power to 540 schools. Another 1,049 are to be completed by late 2008, leaving only another 700 schools to be outfitted, Russo said.

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