El Cuá, Nicaragua: Community-owned hydropower transforms rural economy
Association of Rural Development Workers – Benjamin Linder (ATDER-BL)
Residents of the northern highlands of Nicaragua were typically overlooked by modern infrastructure development. The Association of Rural Development Workers has changed this, securing access to electricity and clean drinking water for local people for the first time. Today the association is also generating enough profits from hydro power to fund US$300,000-worth of development in the region.
