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Solar tools for the night market.
Design is useful when someone can feel the difference before you explain it.
Amina's work starts after sunset, when market stalls are still alive but the infrastructure begins to thin out.
Her prototypes are small, durable, and direct: light for selling, charging for phones, and a clearer way for vendors to be seen.
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