Esther Nattabi

Last edited: 17 November 2021

Esther Nattabi August 2019 — Esther Nattabi

Esther Nattabi from Kampala, Uganda, works closely with Labeja Yafes from Gulu, northern Uganda. She was an employee of Amamu Biomass Energy Ltd., but started studying Business Administration in August 2019. Esther is a founding member of the African Network AfriShiners and has knowledge not only about solar cookers, solar food dryers, and heat-retention cooking, but is highly experienced with gasifiers and other elements of integrated solar cooking.

Starting in 2014, Esther was educated by Faustine Odaba, Dinah Chienjo, John Amayo, and Bernhard Müller. Her activities have also brought her to Zambia and Kenya. In Uganda she been active introducing solar cooking to South Sudanese refugees in various northern Ugandan settlements in co-operation with Labeja Yafes.

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November 2021: - Esther Nattabi now has a website for her social enterprise, UGwal Clean Energy Ltd., in Mengo Kampala, Uganda.
May 2021: Building a business - Bernhard Müller reports that Esther Nattabi has recently purchased an acre of land near Kampala, Uganda to build a workshop for the production of improved combustion cookstoves, biomass briquettes, and fireless cookers. The plan includes the rental of a retail store in Kampala for sales of their products.

Esther Nattabi with solar dryer - July 2019

July 2019: Esther Nattabi constructed a solar food dryer in cooperation with Bernhard Müller at “Orongo Widows and Orphans” in Kisumu, Kenya.
July 2019: Green Day celebration in Kampala - Bernhard Müller reports that Esther Nattabi, an active solar cooking advocate in Uganda, presented solar and fireless cookers at the "Green Day“ organized by the leading NGO Joint Energy and Environment Project in Kampala on Saturday, July 27th. Photo credit: Bernhard Müller