Solar Cooking
Solar Cooking
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Last edited: 31 October 2017      

Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (FSWW), established in 1986, is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. It aims to support low income women groups to improve the quality of their lives and their communities and their leadership. It has a public interest status and tax exemption.

FSWW works with grassroots women groups at local level through the Women and Children Centers that FSWW establishes as grassroots women’s collective spaces used by thousands of women and children.

[This text was borrowed from http://www.kedv.org.tr/index.php (English version)]

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  • June 2016: Gokcen Durutas reports they are actively organizing solar cooking trainings and offer solar cookers for sale at their shop in Nahil.
  • January 2011: The U.S. Department of State recently awarded a $100,000 grant to the Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (FSWW) to launch a year-long solar cooking project. According to the Hürriyet Daily News, the project will have two phases. During the first phase, educational seminars about the effects of climate change are planned in several communities — Istanbul, the Marmara district of Bandırma, the southern province of Hatay and the southeastern province of Mardin. Renewable energy sources will be discussed as alternatives to smokey cooking fires. An estimated 2,000 solar cookers will be built and sold by women’s groups during the second phase of the project, providing needed income opportunities.

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Şengül Akçar
Kadın Emeğini Değerlendirme Vakfı
Bekar sokak No. 17
Beyoğlu - Istanbul
Turkey

Tel: 0-212-292 26 72
Fax: 0-212- 249 15 08

E-mail : kedv@kedv.org.tr
Web: http://www.kedv.org.tr (English version)