project that aims to contribute to climate change mitigation through household electrification of two rural villages of Nowa and Chimangila in Banga locality, of Tsangano district, Tete province, Mozambique; these are part of the poorest villages of the country and three illiterate old-women were selected for training at the Barefoot College in India for six months at the sponsor of this college on solar energy technology, electrification and management; on return to their villages these women will install solar electrification systems in one hundred households of the two villages; these villages have no means of electricity, and use of less environmental friendly sources of energy like candles, fossil fuels (paraffin, petrol and diesel), and fuelwoods will be reduced and/or phased out in benefit of the environment and humankind; the savannah and afromontane ecosystems of the region will ultimately be better preserved, as well as improved livelihoods for these remote communities.