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Lifestyle without Electricity! Imagine life without electricity! Could anyone living in a mega Western City or even in a village located in the remote part of a European country imagine life without electricity? Perhaps, the answer would be in the negative. But there are millions of people in the world who live without electricity! These people live in most of the African countries and the numbers are rising. Just think about Nigeria- one of the world’s biggest oil exporters but 93m Nigerians depend on firewood and charcoal for heat and light!! Even a few years back in my own country, Bangladesh, there were places where people were deprived of electricity for unavoidable reasons! The situation has now changed for better than last year. My country has installed over 3.5 m off-grid solar power system for the benefits of these villagers and the figure would set to double in next few years. “Electricity for all by 2021”, with this vision in mind our Government has taken many initiatives to ensure electricity for all within the targeted year! Appended photos would tell the viewers all the stories about life without Electricity! The last two pictures are from two remote villages of Bangladesh where solar power system has been installed recently and the remaining eight are from different villages located in Benin where people live without the benefits of electricity! The photo #10 shows some villagers of a remote village of Bangladesh, chatting at night under a solar street lamp. Happy Viewing, dear viewers! Photos of Benin by Pascal Maitre           |
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Light, light, more light!
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When my family first arrived in Canada we did without electricty. My father built a small house and could not afford both power and water, so he had a cold water tap put in. We never did get indoor plumbing in that house. Lived there for over 3 years before moving to Montreal.
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I personally have never lived without electricity, except during an emergency weather situation, but my late husband often told me of his early childhood. They lived in this area, but their home was half a mile from the road and power lines and his family could not afford to run the lines to their house until after he was in school. When living without it is your way of life, you do what you have to do ...... but for those of us who have it, and so much more, I wonder how often do we stop and be thankful for what we have. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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When my family first arrived in Canada we did without electricty. My father built a small house and could not afford both power and water, so he had a cold water tap put in. We never did get indoor plumbing in that house. Lived there for over 3 years before moving to Montreal. Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the post left there on the blog page. I was born in British Indian sub-continent when electricity was a rare commodity to be found in residential houses. As my father was a Government Officer, we had to move with him from place to place where he used to be posted from time to time. I could remember that we first moved into a house probably in the year 1943 where electricity was available. But we had to do without electricity whenever we used to go to our ancestral village home. There are still some villages left in my country that are yet to be provided with electricity for some unavoidable reasons. Thanks again for your comments. Stay well always.
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I personally have never lived without electricity, except during an emergency weather situation, but my late husband often told me of his early childhood. They lived in this area, but their home was half a mile from the road and power lines and his family could not afford to run the lines to their house until after he was in school. When living without it is your way of life, you do what you have to do ...... but for those of us who have it, and so much more, I wonder how often do we stop and be thankful for what we have. Stay well and Cheerful always. God bless you and your family!
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Thank you for reminding us how much we take for granted in our over developed countries. Lived without running water or plumbing, but never without electricity. Oh those cold winters and an out door biffy, burrrrrr. Good photos also looklook.
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 This reminded me of my childhood in my hometown. We had to be prepared because the electrical power used to went off very often. I had to study by lighting the room with a gas lamp. As children, we enjoyed when electricity went off and someone used to tell fear stories.   Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.(Khalil Gibran)
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Yes, we sure take electricity for granted! If there was a prolonged outage of even a month, our world here in N. America would change drastically. It is unimaginable..... especially during the winter. I wonder how many of us would make it through a month even in the summer.
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I have not read your blog on Bhutan which is our closest neighbor. Hope to read it as soon as I could locate it in your blog list. We also have power "outages" from time to time. It happens mostly in summer when electricity is diverted to villages for running power pumps to irrigate agricultural lands for cultivation of crops. Thanks MySeek for your informative post on the subject. Hope your partner is well now. Take care and be safe always.
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Thank you for reminding us how much we take for granted in our over developed countries. Lived without running water or plumbing, but never without electricity. Oh those cold winters and an out door biffy, burrrrrr. Good photos also looklook.
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This reminded me of my childhood in my hometown. We had to be prepared because the electrical power used to went off very often. I had to study by lighting the room with a gas lamp. As children, we enjoyed when electricity went off and someone used to tell fear stories.
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Yes, we sure take electricity for granted! If there was a prolonged outage of even a month, our world here in N. America would change drastically. It is unimaginable..... especially during the winter. I wonder how many of us would make it through a month even in the summer.
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Thanks for the post, MySeek. I shall read the blog now. I must have missed it. I may add here for your kind information, that my country intends to import power from Bhutan to meet our shortfall that causes power outages in summer time. We also produce hydro-electric energy here in BD but it is not like Bhutan. Thanks again.
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Ditsy, I see no reason to disagree with what you have expressed at above. Like you, I can not now imagine to live without any of the facilities mentioned by you in your post! I may however take this opportunity to say that though a considerable numbers of people are still living without electricity, running water and indoor bathrooms, yet they thank God for everything that have been provided to them by Him. In other words, each of us living with or without these facilities, are always thankful "for everything that God has blessed us with"...
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Thanks Karin, I have located it and read too. Highly informative blog. It was difficult initially to open the text. We can visit the country without visa. Thimphu has direct air connection with Dhaka, the city where I live in now. Thanks again for telling me about this particular informative blog. Stay well and happy always. God bless you and yours.
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Bhutan has opened up to some extent. They have their own airline that operates in this part of the world. The airline fly to Bangkok, Singapore, Dhaka, Kolkata, Katmandu, New Delhi and even Gaya of India. You can now fly Drukair ( Royal Bhutanese Airlines) at a cheap rate up to February. May be I shall be visiting Thimphu by next summer using land routes. Thanks for your kind wishes. Wish you all the best, Karin. Have a wonderful week. anam
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