Unicamp research generates electricity for indigenous people in Xingu

Electric energy has been present in our lives for decades and its use has become so common that we don't even realize what we would do without it. But, for those attending the Aiha Central Indigenous State School, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory, this reality only became possible thanks to the efforts of Genebaldo Figueiredo Neto, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering (Feagri). In his academic work, the scientist combined the research developed in Unicamp to the passion for indigenous cultures, to install a solar energy system at the school where around 120 children, teenagers and adults from the Aiha village, of the Kalapalo people, study.