empowerment
Transforming Lives: Community Education and Empowerment
Community Technology Centers
Community Technology Centers are decentralized meeting places that empower people to engage in creative problem solving. They work to develop, investigate, promote, and evaluate simple technologies for improving health, protecting the environment, and encouraging economic independence. SOIL currently supports 3 technology centers in Borgne, Milot and Shada.
Looking Through Their Eyes
Looking Through Their Eyes is a photo empowerment project for youth, which is designed to encourage them to discuss and engage in local issues that effect their communities.
Shada Technology Center
The Sant Teknoloji Shada (Shada Technology Center) was established in 2008 with the local youth group, UJDS. The center is a place for community organizing and technological outreach projects ranging from water treatment, to sanitation, to trash recycling.



