. At the village well , women balance jugs of water on their heads , deftly evading the livestock that saunters along . Visit the sites of Gudda with CNN 's Arwa Damon '' It 's a simple lifestyle of farming , tending to goats , caring for children and carrying out household chores -- a daily routine that has n't changed much over the centuries . That 's why light transformed Gudda . Villagers could play music at night . Children could study well past sundown . Watch villagers smile as they light their solar lamps '' As Yamouna Groomis kneads dough for her family 's evening meal , she blows through a pipe every once in a while to keep a flame burning in an outdoor clay pit . Her days used to end when the sun went down . She smiles as she proudly flicks on a solar lamp . `` When I saw this light coming on for the first time , I was very happy , '' she says . The light is powered by a solar panel on her roof that charges a battery . Panels can be seen on almost every rooftop in
GUDDA , India -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- In Gudda , a village with very little , residents are literally beaming . Just two years ago , villagers had never seen light after dark , unless it came from the moon . Then , solar light arrived and changed everything . Children in Gudda stand on rooftops near a solar panel . Solar power first arrived two years ago . `` When the lanterns first arrived , the villagers asked , ` What is this ? ' '' says Hanuman Ram , the local solar engineer . `` I explained to them how it worked . Then slowly , as people saw it , they said , ` Wow , what a thing this is ! ' '' There are no real roads that lead to the tiny village in the state of Rajasthan in northwestern India , home to about 100 families . There are only thin strips of tar dotted with massive potholes that force vehicles into thick brush . Other times , cars have to maneuver over just dirt . There is no electricity -- power lines do n't extend out here . Water is scarce , too