$10,000 - that's the price Pyi Rar and her fellow villagers were told to pay
if they wanted electricity in their small community
in Eastern Myanmar's Kaya state.
She used her local money lender to raise her $80 share
- a huge amount in this impoverished region.
But ten months later there's still no power
and authorities say villagers have to come up with more cash if they want to get connected.
If we had electricity, we could cook and use computers and the children could study.
I attended a computer class, but I can't practice at home without power.
Only 30% of Myanmar's 51 million people had access to electricity.
Even major cities see regular power cuts which have ignited frustration and protests.
The government says it wants everyone to have electricity by the year 2030.
If you look at many parts of urban areas, actually the rate would go as high as 75%.
But, then, for the average to be 30%
you need to indeed consider that in many rural areas this could be extremely low.
For those in rural and ethnic minority areas power projects have long been associated
with land loss and conflict, not electricity.
Hydropower already provides most of the energy in Myanmar.