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'''Camily Wedende''' is the director of [[Sun Cookers International]] in Eldoret, [[Kenya]], and the founder and director of Solar Cooking Science Project, a pilot program for youth engagement through solar cooking science. He began teaching others about solar cooking in 1995, and he and his wife have trained over 300 people since then through 2010. |
'''Camily Wedende''' is the director of [[Sun Cookers International]] in Eldoret, [[Kenya]], and the founder and director of Solar Cooking Science Project, a pilot program for youth engagement through solar cooking science. He began teaching others about solar cooking in 1995, and he and his wife have trained over 300 people since then through 2010. |
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Camily Wedende in front of his workshop in October 2013
Children in line to taste food.
Camily Wedende is the director of Sun Cookers International in Eldoret, Kenya, and the founder and director of Solar Cooking Science Project, a pilot program for youth engagement through solar cooking science. He began teaching others about solar cooking in 1995, and he and his wife have trained over 300 people since then through 2010.
News
Students in Eldoret, Kenya make paper mache bowl shaped bases for solar panel cookers.
- February 2016: Sharon Cousins has worked with Camily Wedende in Eldoret, Kenya for a number of years, helping to find ways to promote solar cooking to the local community on a shoe string budget. Sharon has experimented with a number of simple solar panel cooker designs, and her latest effort uses a large reflective bowl as a cooker base with an adjustable curved back reflector. After a recent visit, she sent Camily home with a large stainless bowl that is being used as a form to lay up paper mache copies of the shape using old newspapers. When dry and covered with aluminum foil, it becomes the base for a panel cooker. Students involved with Student Solar Cooking Science Projects Eldoret, Kenya have been eager to help with the construction.
Graduation day for Student Solar Cooking Science Projects students in Eldoret, Kenya November 2104. - Camily Wedende
- November 2014: Camily Wedende reports that a crowd of around 200 people attended the ceremony and celebration for the successful second project team in Student Solar Cooking Science Projects Eldoret, Kenya, innovators of the Hexagon Solar Cooker. Sharon Cousins, a long time supporter of the project, wrote a speech for the new graduates. It was read by guest of honor John Amayo.
- July 2014: Camily Wedende interviewed on radio station during visit to Idaho in the US. Listen to the interview.
- November 2012: Student Solar Cooking Science Projects, USA and Kenya - What began as a pilot project in Eldoret, Kenya has evolved into two sister organizations, Eldoret Student Projects, founded by Sharon Cousins in the USA and a sister organization in Kenya founded by Camily Wedende. Ongoing fundraising goals include renting a small work facility. Because of limited funding, the group is always looking for ways to produce a reasonable solar cooker for $10USD or less. The partnership that led to these projects began when Camily Wedende of Eldoret read about an American youth project advised by Sharon Cousins, and contacted Sharon asking for advice on working with young people. The pilot project, which involved twenty students ages 10-18, was a stunning success. The innovative approach teaches skills that will help the students in many areas of life. They hope to create a replicable model for the harnessing the tremendous energy and enthusiasm of young people for the advancement of solar cooking in their communities and beyond.
Gaudenziah Wedende pours sun cooked tea for a customer at the Seeing is Believing Cafe.
- February 2012: Camily and Gaudenziah Wedende have started the Seeing is Believing Cafe in Eldoret, Kenya. They are cooking cakes, tea, and other solar-cooked goodies, and selling them in front of their Sun Cookers International business. Tanya Cothran, Director of Spirit in Action, writes about their cafe on the Spirit in Action's blog.
- Spring 2010: Camily Wedende and Sharon Cousins (advising and encouraging via email) began a project to involve a number of Eldoret school children in solar cooking. Students helped construct three different types of solar cookers and have been running comparison tests on the cookers. If a small fund can be arranged for materials, the students each want to make one of the model they like best to take home and use. Contact Sharon Cousins if you would like to donate to this worthy project.
See Also
External Links
- Eldoret, Kenya
- The student solar cooking projects in Eldoret are now on Facebook!
- Learn more and donate to these exciting student projects.
Contact
Camily Wedende
P.O. 1327
Eldoret
Kenya
Tel: +254-0724243798
Email: camilyw@yahoo.com