BY LORETTA B MANELE

We want to see more hydro power in the villages says Casper Fa’asala, CEO of Disabled Peoples Association of Solomon Islands (DPASI).

He raised this whilst speaking as one of the panel members at UNDP and Ministry of Mines Panel Discussion on “Pathways towards better electric power availability, affordability, and sustainability” at the Heritage Park Hotel this month.

Fa’asala said having hydro power in the informal sector can help people with disabilities to be able to create innovations.

“Woodwork, furniture, those are things that disabilities can, again, utilise those powers for. But there is increasing technology devices. The blind can also use their job programmes, which is now available. Having power will be an accessibility for them,” he explained.

Fa’asala also said women with disabilities in the village with access to hydro power can also use electrical sewing machines to help them upgrade their sewing skills as means of raising their income at the community level.

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