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| − | *'''January 2011:''' Ten [[solar box cooker]]s have recently been completed, and been placed in the hands of ten community leaders, who have just finished half of their training provided by [[PROMOSOL]] located in N'Djaména. Currently, there is a waiting list backlog of about sixty orders for cookers, as they try to keep pace with the enthusiastic response from the community. Once this current group is trained, they will begin in February to train others in the manufacture of the box cookers. |
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| + | *'''The Solar Cooker Project helps to improve the lives of Darfur refugees living in Chad''' - More than 50,000 people in four Darfur refugee camps in Eastern Chad are using locally made solar [[CooKit]]s designed by [[Solar Cookers International]]. The project is run by [[Tchad Solaire]] and by the British NGO [[CORD]]. It is funded by [[Jewish World Watch]] and the [[Kozon Foundation]]. The project has improved the safety and survival of the women in the [[refugee camps]]. Previously, they were faced with dangerous and arduous trips outside the camps to collect scarce firewood. Two of the most extensive projects are at the [[Touloum Refugee Camp]] and the [[Iridimi Refugee Camp]]. |
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| − | *'''December 2010: Offsets for [[Darfur]]:''' is an initiative designed by SENSE Foundation to target both environmental issues and support the [[Solar Cooker Project]] - an ingenious solar delivery and training program for Sudanese refugees in [[Chad]] based camps delivered and facilitated by [[Solar Cooker International]], [[Kozon]] and [[Jewish World Watch]]. The benefits of "Offsets for Darfur" are twofold with both environmental and humanitarian aid aspects including the mitigation of: • carbon output in Chad [[refugee camps]], • health issues related to [[firewood]] cooking. • women's safety issues related to sourcing firewood outside of camp boundaries • and unemployment in refugee camps - the project offers training and employment opportunities within the camps. [http://web.me.com/sensefoundation/Site/Offsets_for_Darfur.html More Information on the program.] |
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| − | *'''December 2010: Solar power helps tackle deforestation.''' According to Climate Action Network (CAN), a worldwide network of roughly 500 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change, the [[Chad]] government’s decision last year to ban the use of firewood for cooking was a brave attempt to reduce deforestation, but it has caused significant hardship among those who depended wood for cooking. It has been strictly enforced, and families have been forced to burn everything from furniture to plant roots to cook. The [[KoZon Foundation]], the Chad Ministry of Women Affairs and other groups have distributed more than 2,000 solar stoves to women in areas of greatest need, primarily rural. As usual, effective training and follow-up have been important in introducing the solar cookers. [http://www.climatenetwork.org/can-blog/voice-solar-power-helps-tackle-deforestation More Information...] |
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| − | *'''January 2010:''' [http://solarmoxie.blogspot.com/2009/10/chad-solar-cooking-project-evaluation.html Photos and discussion of evaluation visit to the Iridimi Refugee Camp] - ''[[Karyn Ellis]]'' |
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| − | *'''September 2009: '''The Edmond Burke High School has raised $3000 in bake sales for the [[Jewish World Watch]] project in the Darfur [[refugee camps]]. |
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| − | *'''January 2009:''' Chad Government's ban on charcoal and fresh cut fire wood in N'djamena creates 'explosive' fuel shortage crisis in city: Here's what's happening in N'djamena this week after the charcoal ban went into effect: "'As we speak women and children are on the outskirts of N'djamena scavenging for dead branches, cow dung or theoccasional scrap of charcoal,' Merlin Totinon Ngutan, head of the UN Human Settlements Programme (HABITAT) in Chad, told IRIN from the capital. 'People cannot cook. Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing,' Mrs. Narmadji, with the Association of Women for Development in Chad, told IRIN." (Source: [http://allafrica.com/stories/200901250001.html Banging pots and pans to end charcoal ban] - ''allAfrica.com'') |
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| − | *'''June 2008:''' Radio Netherlands broadcasts a report on the work of [[Marie-Rose Neloum]] working with refugees in Chad ([http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/africa/080619-solar-oven Text], [http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/africa/080619-solar-oven Audio]) |
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| − | *'''May 2008:''' [http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=577&catID=7 Rays of hope for Darfur refugees] - ''Guardian Weekly (UK)'' |
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| − | *'''November 2007:''' [http://www.montereyherald.com/ci_7503852?nclick_check=1 Cooking in Darfur: Solar stoves cleaner, safer for refugees] - ''Monterey Herald'' |
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| − | *'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2007-32/15493.html To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel'' |
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| − | *'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review'' |
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| − | *'''February 2007:''' [[Jewish World Watch]] is now coordinating donations for people wishing to donate to provide solar cookers to the Darfur refugees in Chad. |
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| − | *'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''The Long Beach Press Telegram'' |
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| − | *'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women] |
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| − | *'''January 2007:''' [http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS02/701050343/1024/NEWS08 Katonah, New York concert to provide solar cookers to Darfur refugees] |
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| − | *'''August 2006:''' [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI) is partnering with [[The KoZon Foundation]], a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] charitable group, to assist Darfur refugees living in Chad. In 2004, KoZon volunteer [[Derk Rijks]] trained fifteen women in the capital, N'Djamena. He returned in early 2005, after getting approval from the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR), to start a solar cooker demonstration project at [[Iridimi refugee camp]], one of the camps hosting Darfur refugees. [[Marie-Rose Néloum]], one of the previously trained women, took the plight of the refugees to heart and joined Rijks to train refugee women to use solar [[CooKit]]s and teach others, starting in early 2005. Women responded very enthusiastically and those who learned to solar cook fulfilled their promise to teach others. [[CooKit]]s were soon assembled on-site by refugee women, who earn an income through this activity. A production workshop was completed in early 2006. The workshop is located in a neutral zone of the camp, close to the offices of the camp administrator, [[CARE]]. Refugee women from each of the camp's ten zones take turns training new groups of five to six people. The refugee women at Iridimi camp, as well as head trainer Néloum and two other staff, have persevered in promoting solar cooking even as the security situation has grown increasingly unstable since April 2006. As of July 2006 Iridimi camp had 32 certified solar cooking trainers, 21 [[CooKit]] assemblers, 566 trained families, and 1200 [[CooKit]]s distributed, two to four per tent. Fifty-four women were interviewed in July 2006. Thirty-nine of them solar cook every day; twelve solar cook five to six days a week; and three solar cook two to four days a week. To minimize their reliance on firewood, many families would like to maximize use of all their [[CooKit]]s. However, about a quarter of the families have sold one or more of their cooking pots in exchange for precious food. [[SCI]] and [[The KoZon Foundation]] are working together to provide supplies to make [[CooKit]]s, training, monitoring and accountability to brighten the lives of Darfur refugees at [[Iridimi camp]] in [[Chad]]. Groups and organizations such as the [[Darfur Assistance Projec]]t and [[Jewish World Watch]], both based in southern California ([[USA]]), and many individuals have donated to SCI in support of this project. Additional logistical and communications support from [[UNHCR]] and [[CARE International]] is invaluable in continuing project operations. Barring significant disruptions, each Iridimi camp household will have two or more [[CooKit]]s by early 2007. |
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| − | *'''June 2006:''' [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16010 Jewish World Watch is now starting to ship solar cookers to a refugee camp in Darfur] |
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| + | *'''January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa''' - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, Derk Rijks, Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern [[Chad]] where a number of Sudanese [[refugee camps]] are located. [[TchadSolaire]] has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: [[Media:Solar_Cooking_in_the_Sahel,_NowCast,_1-19-15.pdf|Solar Cooking in the Sahel]] - ''NOWCAST'' |
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| + | [[File:PICT2221.jpg|thumb|300px|Women prepare a farewell dinner for the international team that had been evaluating their solar cooker project.]] |
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| + | *'''November 2013: Only solar cooking makes something like this possible''' - In 2009 several hundred women from Darfur refugee camps gathered together, each carrying a pot of raw food and a folded 12" x 12" cardboard and aluminum foil [[CooKit]]. They were preparing a farewell dinner for an international team that had been evaluating their solar cooker project. The women opened their CooKits and left their pots of food to cook unattended for 90 minutes while they sat in the shade. The result was a banquet for hundreds of people. If each of these woman had been required to haul a fuel-efficient stove and a bundle of wood to this location along with her pot of food, she would have had to stay out in the sun, along with the other women, to tend her fire through the cooking process. Imagine hundreds of fires burning in the desert sun to cook what the ladies in this photo cooked with no fuel and no fire at all. |
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| + | [[File:Touloum refugee camp 1.jpg|thumb|250px|A mother with her child watch over the [[solar panel cookers]] at the [[Touloum Refugee Camp]].]] |
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| + | *'''May 2013: Solar cookers preparing food for 30,000 people daily at the refugee camps in Chad''' - [[Derk Rijks]], a volunteer with the [[KoZon Foundation]], recently responded to [[Jewish World Watch]] with this note of appreciation. "Last week I was at the [[Touloum Refugee Camp]]. The chief of the workshop, Fatimé, told me there were new arrivals. We walked over to the last of the dunes and there was one woman who had just walked in with four kids, sitting in the sand. Her village was bombed one week ago, and she had fled to escape the Janjaweed, walking for seven nights. Fatimé looked at me, I nodded " yes", and in the next few hours she had her cooker and started her solar cooker training, even before she had a shelter. No words needed, no paper needed. That is the way your contribution works." He also explains, in the six camps where they work in Chad, and in the villages of the population around the camps, about <u>29,000</u> families now do solar cooking, and about <u>130,000</u> people are eating solar cooked meals. In this part of the world solar cooking works about 300 days a year. From the empty bags of the food shipped in by the World Food Programme, and the snippets of aluminum foil and cardboard left over from the manufacture of the cookers, the refugees make "[[haybasket|thermos baskets]]" to keep the food, cooked between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., warm until the evening meal at 5 p.m. or 8 p.m. They do not have to search for wood so much any more and there are far fewer conflicts for that reason. As one of the elected representatives of the women refugees said: "Solar cooking brings us justice and peace". |
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*Chad is generally sunny. Local sources of firewood are depleted. It is a good region for solar cooking. (Source: [[Juan Urrutia Sanz]], 2010-Feb-15) |
*Chad is generally sunny. Local sources of firewood are depleted. It is a good region for solar cooking. (Source: [[Juan Urrutia Sanz]], 2010-Feb-15) |
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===See also=== |
===See also=== |
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*[http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=15.64065~18.739003&style=h&lvl=5&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3692425 View an interactive map of Chad] |
*[http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=15.64065~18.739003&style=h&lvl=5&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3692425 View an interactive map of Chad] |
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| − | *'''December 2006:''' [http://www.solarcookers.org/about/programs/chad_faq.pdf Frequently-asked questions about SCI/KoZon Chad project] |
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==Resources== |
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===Reports=== |
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| − | * [http://lescuiseurssolaires.aceboard.fr/ Le forum de la cuísson solaíre] |
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| + | *'''February 2014:''' [http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/02/03/photo-gallery-surviving-genocide-in-sudan-and-congo/?utm_content=bufferc1b35&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Surviving Genocide in Sudan and Congo] - ''Tikkun Daily'' |
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| − | *'''April 2009:''' [http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/11/sun-powered-ovens-for-china-and-darfur/ SUN-POWERED OVENS For China and Darfur] - ''Inhabit'' |
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| + | *'''December 2012:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project] - ''Huffington Post'' |
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*'''March 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm/printable How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks'' |
*'''March 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm/printable How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks'' |
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*'''February 2009:''' [http://www.parade.com/health/2009/03/solar-cooker-project.html Simple Tool That Saves Women's Lives] - ''Parade Magazine'' |
*'''February 2009:''' [http://www.parade.com/health/2009/03/solar-cooker-project.html Simple Tool That Saves Women's Lives] - ''Parade Magazine'' |
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*'''February 2009:''' [http://solarcooking.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=388 Chad: After firewood ban, N'Djamena walk over burning coals] |
*'''February 2009:''' [http://solarcooking.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=388 Chad: After firewood ban, N'Djamena walk over burning coals] |
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*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks'' |
*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks'' |
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| − | *'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/14658.asp Durbin urges people to action on Darfur - Senator discusses what can be done by individuals] - ''Journal Register'' |
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| − | *'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2007-32/15493.html To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel'' |
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*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor'' |
*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor'' |
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| − | *'''April 2007:''' [http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070421/NEWS01/704210318/1006/NEWS01 Solar cooker project aims to assist Darfur refugees] - ''Poughkeepsie Journal'' |
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| − | *'''April 2007:''' [http://www.norwalkcitizen-news.com/local/ci_5600497 Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees] - ''Norwalk Citizen'' |
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*'''March 2007:''' [http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=6927&TM=82981.36 Hands-on help: Columbia Jewish Congregation gives solar cookers to Darfur refugee women] - ''Washington Jewish Week'' |
*'''March 2007:''' [http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=6927&TM=82981.36 Hands-on help: Columbia Jewish Congregation gives solar cookers to Darfur refugee women] - ''Washington Jewish Week'' |
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*'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review'' |
*'''March 2007:''' [http://solarcooking.org/newsletters/scrmar07.htm#Darfur_refugees Darfur refugees keep on cookin'] - ''Solar Cooker Review'' |
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| − | *'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] |
+ | *'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''Long Beach Press Telegram'' |
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women] |
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women] |
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| − | *'''January 2007:''' [http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS02/701050343/1024/NEWS08 Katonah, New York concert to provide solar cookers to Darfur refugees] |
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| − | *'''December 2006:''' [http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16208748.htm Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article on the need for solar cookers in Darfur to prevent the rape of women gathering firewood outside of the refugee camps.] |
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===Audio and video=== |
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| − | *'''July 2008:''' [http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/community&id=6268758|At 14 years old, Shelby Layne became aware of the horrible treatment of women and young girls in Darfur. When Shelby joined Jewish World Watch, she found a way to raise money for the cause.] - ''ABC Inc., KABC-TV/DT Los Angeles, CA'' |
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| + | ::[[File:Les femmes réfugiées du Darfour cuisinent solaire|thumb|400px|none|VIdeo shows hundreds of [[CooKit]]s in use at the Touloum Refugee Camp in Chad.]] |
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Events
Featured international events
- 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...
Online events
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C., USA): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online
Requests for proposal
- Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
- See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Chad
Most significant solar cooking projects
Solar Cooker Project for Women from Darfur
- The Solar Cooker Project helps to improve the lives of Darfur refugees living in Chad - More than 50,000 people in four Darfur refugee camps in Eastern Chad are using locally made solar CooKits designed by Solar Cookers International. The project is run by Tchad Solaire and by the British NGO CORD. It is funded by Jewish World Watch and the Kozon Foundation. The project has improved the safety and survival of the women in the refugee camps. Previously, they were faced with dangerous and arduous trips outside the camps to collect scarce firewood. Two of the most extensive projects are at the Touloum Refugee Camp and the Iridimi Refugee Camp.
News and recent developments
Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST
- January 2015: Scholarly paper documents the available sunshine in the Sahel region of Africa - Authors, Beth Newton, Sophie Cowie, Derk Rijks, Jamie Banks, Helen Brindley, and John h. Marsham have published a well-documented analysis of the potential sunshine available for solar cooking in the Sahel region, particularly in northern Chad where a number of Sudanese refugee camps are located. TchadSolaire has been training both refugees and the indigenous population to solar cook in the region since 2005. Even along river population centers where clouds tend to form, solar cooking is possible for over 330 days a year. Read more: Solar Cooking in the Sahel - NOWCAST
Women prepare a farewell dinner for the international team that had been evaluating their solar cooker project.
- November 2013: Only solar cooking makes something like this possible - In 2009 several hundred women from Darfur refugee camps gathered together, each carrying a pot of raw food and a folded 12" x 12" cardboard and aluminum foil CooKit. They were preparing a farewell dinner for an international team that had been evaluating their solar cooker project. The women opened their CooKits and left their pots of food to cook unattended for 90 minutes while they sat in the shade. The result was a banquet for hundreds of people. If each of these woman had been required to haul a fuel-efficient stove and a bundle of wood to this location along with her pot of food, she would have had to stay out in the sun, along with the other women, to tend her fire through the cooking process. Imagine hundreds of fires burning in the desert sun to cook what the ladies in this photo cooked with no fuel and no fire at all.
A mother with her child watch over the solar panel cookers at the Touloum Refugee Camp.
- May 2013: Solar cookers preparing food for 30,000 people daily at the refugee camps in Chad - Derk Rijks, a volunteer with the KoZon Foundation, recently responded to Jewish World Watch with this note of appreciation. "Last week I was at the Touloum Refugee Camp. The chief of the workshop, Fatimé, told me there were new arrivals. We walked over to the last of the dunes and there was one woman who had just walked in with four kids, sitting in the sand. Her village was bombed one week ago, and she had fled to escape the Janjaweed, walking for seven nights. Fatimé looked at me, I nodded " yes", and in the next few hours she had her cooker and started her solar cooker training, even before she had a shelter. No words needed, no paper needed. That is the way your contribution works." He also explains, in the six camps where they work in Chad, and in the villages of the population around the camps, about 29,000 families now do solar cooking, and about 130,000 people are eating solar cooked meals. In this part of the world solar cooking works about 300 days a year. From the empty bags of the food shipped in by the World Food Programme, and the snippets of aluminum foil and cardboard left over from the manufacture of the cookers, the refugees make "thermos baskets" to keep the food, cooked between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., warm until the evening meal at 5 p.m. or 8 p.m. They do not have to search for wood so much any more and there are far fewer conflicts for that reason. As one of the elected representatives of the women refugees said: "Solar cooking brings us justice and peace".
The history of solar cooking in Chad
- Main article: History of solar cooking
Archived articles
Climate, culture, and special considerations
- Chad is generally sunny. Local sources of firewood are depleted. It is a good region for solar cooking. (Source: Juan Urrutia Sanz, 2010-Feb-15)
See also
- Discussion of northern Africa's suitability for solar cooking
- Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
- View an interactive map of Chad
Resources
Construction plans in Arabic
- CooKit
- CooKit variation (made from smaller pieces of cardboard)
- Minimum Box Cooker
- Solar Water Pasteurizer
Refugee camps in Chad with solar cooking projects
- Touloum Refugee Camp
- Iridimi Refugee Camp
- Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp
- Gaga Refugee Camp
- Farchana Refugee Camp
- Am Nabak
- Kounoungou Refugee Camp
- Mile Refugee Camp
Reports
Articles in the media
- February 2014: Surviving Genocide in Sudan and Congo - Tikkun Daily
- December 2012: Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project - Huffington Post
- March 2009: How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur? - HowStuffWorks
- February 2009: Simple Tool That Saves Women's Lives - Parade Magazine
- February 2009: Chad: After firewood ban, N'Djamena walk over burning coals
- February 2009: How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur? - HowStuffWorks
- July 2007: Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris (includes video) - The Christian Science Monitor
- March 2007: Hands-on help: Columbia Jewish Congregation gives solar cookers to Darfur refugee women - Washington Jewish Week
- March 2007: Darfur refugees keep on cookin' - Solar Cooker Review
- February 2007: Darfur heroes honored - Long Beach Press Telegram
- January 2007: $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women
Audio and video
- July 2010:
- March 2010:
Les femmes réfugiées du Darfour cuisinent solaire
VIdeo shows hundreds of CooKits in use at the Touloum Refugee Camp in Chad.
- April 2009:
- September 2007:
- July 2007:
Blogs
Web pages
Contacts
The entities listed below are either based in Chad, or have established solar cooking projects there:
SCI Associates
- Main article: Solar Cookers International Association