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'''Budd Mackenzie''' operates the nonprofit [[Trust in Education]], that promotes village-to-village programs and builds schools in [[Afghanistan]]. In 2010 they also began to ship a few solar oven kits to the area. The kits were prefabricated by [[Jack Howell]], a long time advocate of solar cooking, and fellow resident of Lafayette, CA, [[USA]].
 
'''Budd Mackenzie''' operates the nonprofit [[Trust in Education]], that promotes village-to-village programs and builds schools in [[Afghanistan]]. In 2010 they also began to ship a few solar oven kits to the area. The kits were prefabricated by [[Jack Howell]], a long time advocate of solar cooking, and fellow resident of Lafayette, CA, [[USA]].
==News and recent developments==
 
[[File:Trust_in_Education_Afghan_family_with_cooker,_4-7-13.jpg|thumb|300px|Afhgan family receives their [[Trust in Education]] solar cooker.]]
 
[[File:IMGP4481.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The [[Trust in Education]] variation of the [[CooKit]], which uses recycled Peet's Coffee bags for the [[reflective material]].]]
 
*'''April 2013:''' [[Jack Howell]] reports that once the 100 volunteer-built solar ovens were delivered, a [[solar box cooker]] variation with a wooden base and 1" of rigid insulation, refugee families were bused to the [[Trust in Education]] office in Kabul, [[Afghanistan]]. They were given a four-hour lesson on how to use the solar ovens, and each family was given an oven to take back to their camp. Since this initial project, the new cookers are a [[CooKit]] variation, being produced at a local box manufacturing company in San Leandro, {{state|California|CA}}. The reflective material used for the [[solar panel cooker]]s is recycled Mylar coffee bean bags from Peet’s coffee headquartered in Berkeley, {{state|California|CA}}. They are cut open and cleaned by adults with developmental disabilities by the people from Futures Explored in Lafayette, CA. With the reflective interior surface facing out, they are then stapled to the cooker panels by the Afghans. We have delivered 2,000 cookers to Afghanistan and collected over 20,000 bags from Peet’s (keeping many Mylar bags from the landfill.) The new cookers are working very well and Afghans love them.
 
 
*'''September 2010:''' An initial shipment of five solar cookers have been sent to Afghanistan.
 
 
==Articles in the media==
 
*'''May 2013:''' [[Media:VALUES_IN_ACTION_-_Going_Solar.pdf|Going Solar, Peet's Coffee donate mylar bags for solar cooker reflectors in Afghanistan]] - ''Peet's newsletter''
 
 
 
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==See also==
 
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Budd Mackenzie photo

Budd Mackenzie operates the nonprofit Trust in Education, that promotes village-to-village programs and builds schools in Afghanistan. In 2010 they also began to ship a few solar oven kits to the area. The kits were prefabricated by Jack Howell, a long time advocate of solar cooking, and fellow resident of Lafayette, CA, USA.

See also

Contact

Budd Mackenzie
Trust In Education
PO Box 936
Lafayette, California 94549
USA

Tel. +1 (925) 299-2010

Email: trustineduction@gmail.com