Rafea is completely dependent upon him for support, but he gives her barely enough to cover essentials for herself and her four daughters.Ī local government official singles out Rafea to be the town’s representative at the Barefoot College, a nonprofit school in faraway India that teaches uneducated and impoverished grandmothers from third world countries the trade of making solar panels. ![]() Rafea, an illiterate Bedouin woman who lives in a remote and impoverished village in Jordan, is the second wife of a very traditional man who feels that the only place she belongs at home, where she is to serve him. The film doesn’t cure all the ills in Rafea’s life, nor does it resolve all the issues that she and other women in her community face, but it strongly suggests that there are proactive ways to make a difference for the better. Such is the case with filmmakers Jahane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief’s extraordinary Rafea Solar Mama, which chronicles the transformation of a woman who felt she had no future into a self-confident, independent citizen with the means to support herself and her family. It’s wonderful when filmmakers produce documentaries about social actions that better peoples’ lives.
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