[Stoves] 500 Kenyan refugee children learn to solar cook!

[Ingelore Kahrens]

Dear all,

in a few weeks I´ll be in Kenya where I will also meet with Mr. Mawira. 
In our project at Mt. Kenya we are going to promote a different type of 
panel cooker: the Lightoven Upcycling that was designed by a German 
engineer in Berlin. This cooker is very efficient and much cheaper to 
produce and build than the Haines-Copenhagen. It is made from two 
recycled polypropylen election posters and cheap pp reflective tape. 
I´ll take two of these cookers with me to Kenya for testing and to show 
them to Mr. Mawira. (And I have 900 unused posters that were donated to 
me by a political party.)

Cheers

Ingelore Kahrens


Am 13.07.2017 um 03:26 schrieb Crispin Pemberton-Pigott:
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> ****Solar ******C******oo******king Fe******stival******in Kakuma 
> refugee camp, Kenya teaches 500 children to solar cook*****
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> On April 29, 2017, a Solar Cooker Festival for 500 schoolchildren was 
> held at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.  This celebration not only made 
> solar cooking possible for 500 households, but was the inception of a 
> sustainable solar cooker social enterprise to meet the high demand for 
> solar cookers in Kakuma camp. A 2016 study by World Food Program 
> engineer Godfrey Mawira showed that solar cooking was the second-most 
> preferred method of cooking in Kakuma, even though very few solar 
> cookers were available.
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> Inexpensive, durable solar panel cookers called "Haines-Copenhagen” 
> cookers were assembled in Kakuma by refugees from materials donated by 
> Haines Solar Cookers. They should last 10 years with proper care.
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> Children in Kakuma refugee camp learn to solar cook 
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> /500 children in Kakuma refugee camp learn to cook in 
> Haines-Copenhagen solar cookers.// (Click on photo to see video that 
> aired on Nairobi television shortly after the Festival)/
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> Training was provided by Faustine "Mama Solar” Odaba, and her Nairobi 
> NGO, NAREWAMA.  Significantly, Ms. Odaba had been one of the trainers 
> in 1995 when Solar Cookers International (SCI) first introduced solar 
> cookers in Kakuma.  Before the festival, 50 refugee women were trained 
> to use the cookers, and they in turn trained the children.  The 
> festival took place at Hope Primary School in Kakuma Camp Four.  
> During the festival, "Mama Solar” set up fifteen cookers and cooked a 
> wide variety of food, including rice, vegetables chicken, eggs, 
> cabbage, ugali, beans and cake.  The children sat in neat rows as 
> trainers handed out the cookers, cooking pots, food and water.  All 
> the children assembled their own cookers, and successfully cooked 
> delicious noodles before an enthusiastic crowd of family members and 
> relatives.  The children were elated and proudly showed off their new 
> cookers.
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> Faustine Odaba instructing children in solar cooking 		
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> This project was a partnership between Haines Solar Cookers, WFP 
> engineer Godfrey Mawira, the National Council of Churches of Kenya, 
> and Simplified Technologies for Life, which has produced "Suryakumbh” 
> Solar Cooking Festivals for almost 120,000 participants in India, and 
> holds the Guinness Record for the most people solar cooking at the 
> same time: 7,438. Funding was provided by Haines Solar Cookers and the 
> San Diego, California, Rotary Club. Additional support and resources 
> came from Solar Household Energy (SHE). Other partners included 
> Eco-Mandate, which sells solar cookers in Chuka, Kenya, the Alliance 
> for African Assistance, a San Diego-based refugee resettlement 
> organization, and the Rotaract Club of the University of California, 
> San Diego, which made 500 Water Pasteurization Indicators (WAPIs) for 
> the Festival participants.
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> Follow up studies are planned, and Board member Roger Haines is 
> working with Eco-Mandate and a local entrepreneur to offer 
> Haines-Copenhagen solar cookers for sale in Kakuma for a sustainable 
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> /  Faustine Odaba, known as "Mama Solar” (in bright colors) 
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