Plastic buckets, broken printers shine light on Hanoi’s poor (2016)

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese families living in slums along the Red River in Hanoi are using red plastic buckets and old printers to help light homes, cook meals and slash electricity costs by as much as a third. Though the output generated is small, it makes a significant difference for families previously denied power because they lived too far from a power station or had to ration supply because of the expense, at an average cost of $9 a month. Cuong hopes to boost energy production, and is looking for donors to help lighten the electricity costs of other low-income families.

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