Amani Solution Self Help Group
From Solar Cooking
The Amani Solution Self Help Group began promoting solar cookers in mid-2006 through a series of seminars and demonstrations they conducted in and around Nairobi, including Kiberia and Waithaka. The group had been producing two to three wooden solar box cookers per month, but it has struggled to keep up with demand. Coordinator Henry Ogola Oloo says the group was inspired and moved by four orphans whose parents had died in a car accident. The eldest child, 14-year-old Apiyo, is responsible for cooking for her younger brothers and sisters. The Amani Solution Self Help Group donated a solar cooker to the family, taught them how to use it, and have been monitoring its use and the family’s progress. “It is wonderful and very much different,” says Oloo. “The children say ‘It is just as when our mother was alive. We eat our lunch early and go back to school. Even our supper we eat as early as 7 p.m.’” Prior to owning a solar cooker, the children had to gather firewood before they could begin cooking, delaying their evening meal until about 10 p.m.
[edit] News and Recent Developments
- February 2009: We survived the post election violence and we have revived our solar cooker awareness project. With oil prices that short up and electricity bills are uncontrollable some people are now inquiring about solar cookers, to cut down their cooking costs. The government have beefed up security in forests against logging of trees for charcoal & cooking firewood .The only remaining option to drive down living (cooking) cost is by solar cooking. It is now a challenge for us to add new skills in our products. 1) To make them in large numbers; 2) To make high performance cookers; 3) To engage in other products like solar radios, etc.; and 4) To spread awareness to rural areas where people are hard hit by poverty. All of which need support on material, to make people comfortable to run their daily life. For any support on our solar pilot project should be forwarded to: A/C 0170190853871 Equity Bank
- November 2008: The Amani Solution Self Help Group began promoting solar cookers in mid-2006 through a series of seminars and demonstrations they conducted in and around Nairobi, including Kiberia and Waithaka. The group had been producing two to three wooden solar box cookers per month, but it has struggled to keep up with demand. Coordinator Henry Ogola Oloo says the group was inspired and moved by four orphans whose parents had died in a car accident. The eldest child, 14-year-old Apiyo, is responsible for cooking for her younger brothers and sisters. The Amani Solution Self Help Group donated a solar cooker to the family, taught them how to use it, and have been monitoring its use and the family’s progress. “It is wonderful and very much different,” says Oloo. “The children say ‘It is just as when our mother was alive. We eat our lunch early and go back to school. Even our supper we eat as early as 7 p.m.’” Prior to owning a solar cooker, the children had to gather firewood before they could begin cooking, delaying their evening meal until about 10 p.m.
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See Henry Ogola Oloo
