Bereket Dessie is the Proprietor of Solar Bereket, a small Ethiopian company/NGO that started the manufacture of solar cookers in 2000. At that time no one knew anything about solar cookers. It was just a magic for everyone when they saw food is cooked with the sun. Bereket Dessie reports that things are changing now, however.
Solar Bereket's customers are NGOs such as World Vision Ethiopia, GTZ, and PISDA working with Solar Cooking Netherlands, HOPE, Hope for the Horn, DEA, and the Catholic Ministries working on the health and school programs. Solar Bereket also works with various small, local NGOS.
In their shop Scheffler Reflectors are produced, which can be used to prepare injera, the local flatbreadbread. Other cookers produced are the SK-14, box cookers, and CooKits. Solar Bereket is also producing fuel-efficient woodstoves.
The company has been featured in Ethiopian national television a half a dozen times and on a radio program as well as in governmental and private magazines.
In 2008 more than 5000 CooKits have been produced by Solar Bereket.
The Swiss NGO Arcarana supported Bereket Dessie in setting up his business.
Photos
 Participants hold their folded CooKit solar panel cookers. |
 CooKits ready for distribution |
 Box cookers are shown |
  Parabolic cookers are shown |
