Electricity and hot water are a given in many parts of the world, but in the marginalised town of Garin, north of the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires, there used to be neither.

Things have changed thanks to ingenious but very simple solar panels made from recycled plastic bottles.

It's the result of an initiative by Argentinian NGO "Sumando Energias":[ Ссылка ], which directly involves local communities.

"This is a poor neighbourhood and sometimes we have no light or w…
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