Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development

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August 2008: From 2nd June to date we are with expantion and we had meet 7 communities and trained 712 new women in the 7 new villages in the country. We trained them with the basic knowledge of solar cooking and the benefit of this latest technology. The women appreciated the training very much. They promise to work as a team to help the other communities with the technology. Our aim is to cover the whole country within 5 years with the latest techology.

August 2008: The nongovernmental organization Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development (AHEAD) recently conducted solar cooking trainings in five villages in The Gambia and plans to expand this summer. Malcolm Gee led workshops to train 12-15 women per village in the construction and use of panel-type solar cookers. Eighty women were trained, who in turn will train others. The women cooked meals of fish, rice, and vegetables in the cookers, and are experimenting with other traditional dishes. They have formed a trainers’ cooperative called Tilo Tabiro.