Eritrea

News and Recent Developments

• March, 2006: The Eritrea solar cooker project organized by the foundation Solar Cooking Eritrea Netherlands (SCEN) continues to spread solar cooking knowledge in the Anseba region. As of January 2006, women from eight villages in the region, who previously purchased CooKits, attend monthly classes to further their skills and work through any issues. SCEN hopes to extend these classes to 32 more villages in the region by the end of 2006. Local women are fabricating CooKits in the city of Keren. One hundred CooKits have been made, and more are in the works (pending re-supply of aluminum foil, which must be imported). According to SCEN representative Janine Pater, local fabrication is important: “This is a major step forward in accomplishing the objective that now, and in the future, everyone in Anseba will be in a position to buy and/or make a CooKit without restriction.” <More at Solar Cooking Eritrea Netherlands.>

The History of Solar Cooking in Eritrea

In this nation, not long ago formed as an independent state following a long war with Ethiopia, an organization known as A.K. Lilu Alternative Energy Research has been in touch with Solar Cookers International. The founders are inventors and manufacturers of solar cookers in that new nation. Little else is however known about their sales or programs.

Participants in the 2001 Shell Oil sponsored electronic dialogue on household energy and health were informed that the Department of Energy of Eritrea had* however, engaged in a project promoting the use of fuel efficient stoves in that year. Studies had shown the inefficiencies of traditional bread baking methods and the loss of energy in charcoal making, as well. Therefore, what appears to have been a successful program to change long held habits had been instituted in a pilot area, then expanded to a larger number of villages, auguring well for promotion of additional renewable technologies.

[Information for this section was taken originally from State of the Art of Solar Cooking by Dr. Barbara Knudson]

See also

• Wikimedia Commons Atlas of Eritrea

Climate, Culture, and Special Considerations

See also

• Discussion of eastern Africa's suitability for solar cooking
  
• Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables

Contacts

NGOs based abroad but working in-country

• Solar Cooking Eritrea Netherlands

Individuals

• Clara Thomas
• A complete list of Solar Cookers International's solar cooking contacts is available in the International Directory of Solar Cooking Promotors

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