{"id":23256,"date":"2026-10-05T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/undp-solar-power-afghanistan-women-girls-education-health-services\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:15:17","slug":"undp-solar-power-afghanistan-women-girls-education-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/undp-solar-power-afghanistan-women-girls-education-health-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power Improves Access to Essential Services for 743,000 Women and Girls in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says the use of solar energy in schools and health centres has improved access to education and health services for 743,470 women and girls across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said on Monday, 13 Mizan, that its support in this area has continued from January 2023 to September 2026. According to UNDP, providing solar power to these facilities is part of efforts to improve people&#8217;s access to essential services.<\/p>\n<p>Schools and health centres in a number of areas of Afghanistan are struggling to secure the electricity they need. Shortages and unequal access to energy, especially in rural and remote areas, are among the country&#8217;s existing challenges, and the use of solar energy is seen as one way to power these facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP says solar power has improved access to education and health services for 743,470 women and girls across Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}