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'''The Solar Cooker Project improves lives of Darfur refugees''' -
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More than 50,000 people in four Darfur [[refugee camps]] in Eastern Chad are using locally made solar [[CooKit]]s designed by [[Solar Cookers International]]. The project is run by [[Tchad Solaire]] and by the British NGO [[CORD]]. Funding has been provided by [[Jewish World Watch]] and the [[Kozon Foundation]]. The project has improved the safety and survival of the women in the [[refugee camps]]. Previously, they were faced with dangerous and arduous trips outside the camps to collect scarce firewood. Two of the most extensive projects are at the [[Touloum Refugee Camp]] and the [[Iridimi Refugee Camp]].
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*'''December 2012: Jewish World Watch, originator of the Solar Cooker Project for Sudanese refugees, reviews their current programs at several of the refugee camps in Chad''' – As a result of a joint security force between [[Chad]] and [[Sudan]], violence against women has declined some since the project began seven years ago. [[Cord]], their partner at the [[Farchana Refugee Camp|Farchana refugee camp]], sees solar cooking as a way to keep girls in school, and not spending hours finding [[fuelwood]] for cooking. For others, the project has meant help for the environment and the air quality conditions for women previously using open fires. When the [[Jewish World Watch]] contingent first visited the camps many years ago, the refugees had just arrived and the encampment was meant to be temporary. The hope and expectation was that within a few months or a couple of years at most; they would return to their homes. But now, seven years later, it is clear that returning to Darfur is not a reality and the camps are turning into permanent settlements. As a result, the programs for the refugees must begin to move away from survival resources and begin to address ways of achieving self-sufficiency and permanence. In other words, helping to create a life, not an existence. Future larger scale solutions will be needed to address and benefit the surrounding communities, as well as the refugee camps, to help with the integration of the Sudanese residents. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Read more...]
  
   
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[[File:SHE_HotPot_in_Gaga_camp.jpg|thumb|290px|One of the fifty women who received [[SHE]] training with a [[HotPot]] cooker in [[Chad]].]]
  
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[[File:Pietro_Rusconi_teaches_in_Chad,_11-13-17_copy.jpg|thumb|300px|Father Pietro Rusconi demonstrates a [[parabolic solar cooker]] in Chad. ''Photo credit: Marco Roncalli'']]
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*'''May 2011:''' [[Solar Household Energy]] (SHE) was commissioned to test acceptance of the [[HotPot]] solar oven in the [[Gaga refugee camp]] in eastern [[Chad]]. It shelters 20,000 people from [[Darfur]] in Western [[Sudan]]. [[Patrick Fourrier]], a French solar cooking expert affiliated with [[Bolivia Inti Sud Soleil]], completed the first phase of the project last month. He will also ensure that local support systems set in place to encourage continued use of the solar ovens are working effectively. Read more in the [[Media:SHE_update_spring_2011.pdf|SHE spring update 2011]].
  
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*{{NewNov17}}'''November 2017: Jesuit inventor frees women from the bondage of fire''' - Through solar kitchens and "foyer améliorés", in [[Chad]] the father Pietro Rusconi values ​​a renewable energy at zero cost and prevents women and mothers "break their backs in the Savannah to collect firewood and shrubs" or "buy expensive coal or oil". {{GoogleLinkAuto|http://www.lastampa.it/2017/11/01/vaticaninsider/es/en-el-mundo/el-jesuita-inventor-que-libra-a-las-mujeres-de-la-esclavitud-del-fuego-ZGlniMzOii1fxbiF4Ba32N/pagina.html|Read more...}}
   
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[[File:IMG_0089.jpg|thumb|300px|Community leaders receive [[solar box cooker]]s from [[PROMOSOL]] midway through their training.]]
  
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*'''January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa''' - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, [[Derk Rijks]], Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern [[Chad]] where a number of Sudanese [[refugee camps]] are located. [[TchadSolaire]] has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: [[Media:Solar_Cooking_in_the_Sahel,_NowCast,_1-19-15.pdf|Solar Cooking in the Sahel]] - ''NOWCAST''
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*'''January 2011:''' Ten [[solar box cooker]]s have recently been completed, and been placed in the hands of ten community leaders, who have just finished half of their training provided by [[PROMOSOL]] located in N'Djaména. Currently, there is a waiting list backlog of about sixty orders for cookers, as they try to keep pace with the enthusiastic response from the community. Once this current group is trained, they will begin in February to train others in the manufacture of the box cookers.
  
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[[File:Offsets_for_Darfur.jpg|thumb|300px|Offsets for Darfur]]
  
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*'''December 2010: Offsets for [[Darfur]]:''' is an initiative designed by SENSE Foundation to target both environmental issues and support the [[Solar Cooker Project]] - an ingenious solar delivery and training program for Sudanese refugees in [[Chad]] based camps delivered and facilitated by [[Solar Cooker International]], [[Kozon]] and [[Jewish World Watch]]. The benefits of "Offsets for Darfur" are twofold with both environmental and humanitarian aid aspects including the mitigation of: • carbon output in Chad [[refugee camps]], • health issues related to [[firewood]] cooking. • women's safety issues related to sourcing firewood outside of camp boundaries • and unemployment in refugee camps - the project offers training and employment opportunities within the camps.
 
   
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*'''December 2010: Solar power helps tackle deforestation.''' According to Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide network of roughly 500 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change, the [[Chad]] government’s decision last year to ban the use of firewood for cooking was a brave attempt to reduce deforestation, but it has caused significant hardship among those who depended wood for cooking. It has been strictly enforced, and families have been forced to burn everything from furniture to plant roots to cook. The [[KoZon Foundation]], the Chad Ministry of Women Affairs and other groups have distributed more than 2,000 solar stoves to women in areas of greatest need, primarily rural. As usual, effective training and follow-up have been important in introducing the solar cookers. [http://www.climatenetwork.org/can-blog/voice-solar-power-helps-tackle-deforestation More Information...]
  
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*'''January 2010:''' [http://solarmoxie.blogspot.com/2009/10/chad-solar-cooking-project-evaluation.html Photos and discussion of evaluation visit to the Iridimi Refugee Camp] - ''[[Karyn Ellis]]''
  
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*'''September 2009: '''The Edmond Burke High School has raised $3000 in&nbsp; bake sales for the [[Jewish World Watch]] project in the Darfur [[refugee camps]].
  
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*'''January 2009:''' Chad Government's ban on charcoal and fresh cut fire wood in N'djamena creates 'explosive' fuel shortage crisis in city: Here's what's happening in N'djamena this week after the charcoal ban went into effect: "'As we speak women and children are on the outskirts of N'djamena scavenging for dead branches, cow dung or theoccasional scrap of charcoal,' Merlin Totinon Ngutan, head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT) in Chad, told IRIN from the capital. 'People cannot cook. Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing,' Mrs. Narmadji, with the Association of Women for Development in Chad, told IRIN." (Source: [http://allafrica.com/stories/200901250001.html Banging pots and pans to end charcoal ban] - ''allAfrica.com'')
  
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*'''November 2007:''' [http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_7503852?nclick_check=1 Cooking in Darfur: Solar stoves cleaner, safer for refugees] - ''Monterey Herald''
  
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*'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review''
  
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*'''February 2007:''' [[Jewish World Watch]] is now coordinating donations for people wishing to donate to provide solar cookers to the Darfur refugees in Chad.
  
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*'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''The Long Beach Press Telegram''
  
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*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women]
  
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*'''August 2006:''' [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI) is partnering with [[The KoZon Foundation]], a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] charitable group, to assist Darfur refugees living in Chad. In 2004, KoZon volunteer [[Derk Rijks]] trained fifteen women in the capital, N'Djamena. He returned in early 2005, after getting approval from the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR), to start a solar cooker demonstration project at [[Iridimi refugee camp]], one of the camps hosting Darfur refugees. [[Marie-Rose Néloum]], one of the previously trained women, took the plight of the refugees to heart and joined Rijks to train refugee women to use solar [[CooKit]]s and teach others, starting in early 2005. Women responded very enthusiastically and those who learned to solar cook fulfilled their promise to teach others. [[CooKit]]s were soon assembled on-site by refugee women, who earn an income through this activity. A production workshop was completed in early 2006. The workshop is located in a neutral zone of the camp, close to the offices of the camp administrator, [[CARE]]. Refugee women from each of the camp's ten zones take turns training new groups of five to six people. The refugee women at Iridimi camp, as well as head trainer Néloum and two other staff, have persevered in promoting solar cooking even as the security situation has grown increasingly unstable since April 2006. As of July 2006 Iridimi camp had 32 certified solar cooking trainers, 21 [[CooKit]] assemblers, 566 trained families, and 1200 [[CooKit]]s distributed, two to four per tent. Fifty-four women were interviewed in July 2006. Thirty-nine of them solar cook every day; twelve solar cook five to six days a week; and three solar cook two to four days a week. To minimize their reliance on firewood, many families would like to maximize use of all their [[CooKit]]s. However, about a quarter of the families have sold one or more of their cooking pots in exchange for precious food. [[SCI]] and [[The KoZon Foundation]] are working together to provide supplies to make [[CooKit]]s, training, monitoring and accountability to brighten the lives of Darfur refugees at [[Iridimi camp]] in [[Chad]]. Groups and organizations such as the [[Darfur Assistance Projec]]t and [[Jewish World Watch]], both based in southern California ([[USA]]), and many individuals have donated to SCI in support of this project. Additional logistical and communications support from [[UNHCR]] and [[CARE International]] is invaluable in continuing project operations. Barring significant disruptions, each Iridimi camp household will have two or more [[CooKit]]s by early 2007.
  
   
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*'''June 2006:''' [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16010 Jewish World Watch is now starting to ship solar cookers to a refugee camp in Darfur]
  
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*'''January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa''' - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, [[Derk Rijks]], Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern [[Chad]] where a number of Sudanese [[refugee camps]] are located. [[TchadSolaire]] has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: [[Media:Solar_Cooking_in_the_Sahel,_NowCast,_1-19-15.pdf|Solar Cooking in the Sahel]] - ''NOWCAST''
   
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*[[Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables]]
  
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*[http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=15.64065~18.739003&style=h&lvl=5&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3692425 View an interactive map of Chad]
  
*[http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=15.64065~18.739003&style=h&lvl=5&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3692425 View an interactive map of Chad]
   
 
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*{{NewDec16}}'''September 2014:''' [[Media:Solar_Cooking_in_the_Sahel,_NowCast,_1-19-15.pdf|Solar Cooking in the Sahel Region of Northern Africa]] - ''NOWCAST''
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*{{NewJan17}}'''November 2009:''' [[Media:Touloum_Refugee_Camp_Evaluation_-_November_2009.pdf|TchadSolaire Project Evaluation, Touloum Refugee Camp, Chad - Final Report]] - Evaluation of [[Cookit]] distribution in the [[Touloum Refugee Camp]] in [[Chad]] by [[TchadSolaire]] with notes about successful program elements and recommendations for technological improvements.
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*{{NewJan17}}'''October 2007:''' [[Media:Iridimi_Evaluation_Report_October_2007_compressed.pdf|Solar Cooker Project Iridimi, Refugee Camp, Chad - Final Evaluation]] - Observations from a five day evaluation of solar cooker use in the [[Iridimi Refugee Camp]]. Evaluation based on interviews with 121 refugees and includes recommendations for improving solar cooker use in the camp.
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*{{NewJan17}}'''July 2006:''' [[Media:Granada_06_derk_rijks.pdf|Use and Manufacture of CooKits in a Refugee Camp, Iridimi, Chad]]
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*'''February 2014:''' [http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/02/03/photo-gallery-surviving-genocide-in-sudan-and-congo/?utm_content=bufferc1b35&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Surviving Genocide in Sudan and Congo] - ''Tikkun Daily''
 
*'''December 2012:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project] - ''Huffington Post''
  
*'''December 2012:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project] - ''Huffington Post''
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*'''April 2009:''' [http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/11/sun-powered-ovens-for-china-and-darfur/ SUN-POWERED OVENS For China and Darfur] - ''Inhabit''
  
 
*'''March 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm/printable How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
  
*'''March 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm/printable How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
 
*'''February 2009:''' [http://www.parade.com/health/2009/03/solar-cooker-project.html Simple Tool That Saves Women's Lives] - ''Parade Magazine''
  
*'''February 2009:''' [http://www.parade.com/health/2009/03/solar-cooker-project.html Simple Tool That Saves Women's Lives] - ''Parade Magazine''
 
*'''February 2009:''' [http://solarcooking.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=388 Chad: After firewood ban, N'Djamena walk over burning coals]
  
*'''February 2009:''' [http://solarcooking.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=388 Chad: After firewood ban, N'Djamena walk over burning coals]
 
*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
  
*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
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*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/14658.asp Durbin urges people to action on Darfur - Senator discusses what can be done by individuals] - ''Journal Register''
  
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*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2007-32/15493.html To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel''
  
 
*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor''
  
*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor''
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*'''April 2007:''' [http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070421/NEWS01/704210318/1006/NEWS01 Solar cooker project aims to assist Darfur refugees] - ''Poughkeepsie Journal''
  
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*'''April 2007:''' [http://www.norwalkcitizen-news.com/local/ci_5600497 Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees] - ''Norwalk Citizen''
  
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*'''March 2007:''' [http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=6927&TM=82981.36 Hands-on help: Columbia Jewish Congregation gives solar cookers to Darfur refugee women] - ''Washington Jewish Week''
  
 
*'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review''
  
*'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review''
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*'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''Long Beach Press Telegram''
 
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women]
  
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women]
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*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS02/701050343/1024/NEWS08 Katonah, New York concert to provide solar cookers to Darfur refugees]
  
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*'''December 2006:''' [http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16208748.htm Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article on the need for solar cookers in Darfur to prevent the rape of women gathering firewood outside of the refugee camps.]
  
   
 
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VIdeo shows hundreds of CooKits in use at the Touloum Refugee Camp in Chad.

The Solar Cooker Project improves lives of Darfur refugees - More than 50,000 people in four Darfur refugee camps in Eastern Chad are using locally made solar CooKits designed by Solar Cookers International. The project is run by Tchad Solaire and by the British NGO CORD. Funding has been provided by Jewish World Watch and the Kozon Foundation. The project has improved the safety and survival of the women in the refugee camps. Previously, they were faced with dangerous and arduous trips outside the camps to collect scarce firewood. Two of the most extensive projects are at the Touloum Refugee Camp and the Iridimi Refugee Camp.

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  • NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C., USA): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online

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  • Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
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Pietro Rusconi teaches in Chad, 11-13-17 copy

Father Pietro Rusconi demonstrates a parabolic solar cooker in Chad. Photo credit: Marco Roncalli

  • November 2017: Jesuit inventor frees women from the bondage of fire - Through solar kitchens and "foyer améliorés", in Chad the father Pietro Rusconi values ​​a renewable energy at zero cost and prevents women and mothers "break their backs in the Savannah to collect firewood and shrubs" or "buy expensive coal or oil". Read more... - (English version)
Solar Cooking in the Sahel map, 1-19-15

Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST

  • January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, Derk Rijks, Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern Chad where a number of Sudanese refugee camps are located. TchadSolaire has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST
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Solar Cooking in the Sahel map, 1-19-15

Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST

  • January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, Derk Rijks, Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern Chad where a number of Sudanese refugee camps are located. TchadSolaire has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST

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ChadMap2009

Construction plans in Arabic

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Refugee camps

Main article: Refugee camps

Reports

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Audio and video

  • July 2010:
Solar_Cooking_in_Africa_-_A_Remarkable_Technology_Transfer
  • March 2010:
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Les femmes réfugiées du Darfour cuisinent solaire

VIdeo shows hundreds of CooKits in use at the Touloum Refugee Camp in Chad.

  • April 2009:
Jewish_World_Watch_Solar_Cooker_Project
  • September 2007:
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  • July 2007:
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SCI Associates

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