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[[Image:Grace_Magney_demonstrating_solar_cooking_in_Afghanistan.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Grace Magney]] demonstrates solar cooking in Afghanistan]] In 2010, Gordon and [[Grace Magney]] of '''Global Hope Network International''' began a project to supply subsidized solar cookers as an affordable solution for middle- and lower-income families in [[Afghanistan]]. They have imported both ready-to-use cookers as well as materials for making additional cookers. Global Hope Network International has provided training in several Arghan villages in how to assemble and demonstrate solar cooking.
   
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Global Hope Network International intends to complete its solar cooking project at the end of 2015.
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[[Image:Grace_Magney_demonstrating_solar_cooking_in_Afghanistan.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Grace Magney]] demonstrates solar cooking in Afghanistan]]The purpose of the project is to supply subsidized solar cookers as an affordable solution for middle- and lower-income families. The project is to assemble and distribute 2,000 solar cookers to families in Afghanistan during 2006. One thousand will be the SOS [[SPORT]] Solar Ovens and 1,000 will be panel cookers. The cookers will be subsidized so that most families will be able to afford either. The materials for making the ovens will be imported and Afghans will be trained to assemble and demonstrate solar cooking.
 
 
In the village of Qalai Badar Khan, just south of Kabul, Global Hope Network, distributed 28 [[K-14]] parabolic cookers in 2003. Every family is using theirs after three years.
 
   
 
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*'''October 2014:''' Global Hope Network International has recently supplied 300 solar cookers to rural villagers in central Afghanistan at below cost. They used a charter bus to transport the cookers rather than a truck in order to reduce the likelihood of attack. For more information, watch the video in the Audio and Video section below.
 
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[[File:Global_hope_11-02-15.png|thumb|300px|right|Photo credit: Global Hope Network International]]
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*{{NewJan16}}'''November 2015:''' Global Hope Network International reports delivering 86 solar cookers in the Yoakawlang District and Bamyan Province of Afghanistan. They note that local solar cooker production and sales have also increased in these areas. [http://www.globalhopenetwork.org/us/blog/solar-cooker-businesses-grow Read more...]
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*'''October 2014:''' Global Hope Network International reports its recent success in transporting 300 solar cookers to rural villages in central Afghanistan where all 300 were purchased by villagers.
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[[File:Jeff_Waalkes_Afghan_valley_,_10-18-12.jpg|thumb|300px|Delivery of the [[parabolic solar cooker]]s to the Kirghiz tribe arrive on the backs of yaks.]]
 
[[File:Jeff_Waalkes_Afghan_valley_,_10-18-12.jpg|thumb|300px|Delivery of the [[parabolic solar cooker]]s to the Kirghiz tribe arrive on the backs of yaks.]]
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*{{NewApr16}}'''March 2016:''' [[Media:How_to_use_a_parabolic_solar_cooker_-_Global_Hope_Network_International.pdf|How to Use a Parabolic Solar Cooker]] (Dari and English) - ''[[Grace Magney]]''
   
 
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*[http://www.solarovens.org/AudioVideo/Afgnstn1-1.wmv Interview with Gordon and Grace Magney about their work to distribute solar ovens in Afghanistan]
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Grace Magney demonstrating solar cooking in Afghanistan

Grace Magney demonstrates solar cooking in Afghanistan

In 2010, Gordon and Grace Magney of Global Hope Network International began a project to supply subsidized solar cookers as an affordable solution for middle- and lower-income families in Afghanistan. They have imported both ready-to-use cookers as well as materials for making additional cookers. Global Hope Network International has provided training in several Arghan villages in how to assemble and demonstrate solar cooking.

Global Hope Network International intends to complete its solar cooking project at the end of 2015.

News and recent developments

News

Global hope 11-02-15

Photo credit: Global Hope Network International

  • November 2015: Global Hope Network International reports delivering 86 solar cookers in the Yoakawlang District and Bamyan Province of Afghanistan. They note that local solar cooker production and sales have also increased in these areas. Read more...
Solar_Cooker_Success_in_Afghanistan!

Solar Cooker Success in Afghanistan!

  • October 2014: Global Hope Network International reports its recent success in transporting 300 solar cookers to rural villages in central Afghanistan where all 300 were purchased by villagers.
Jeff Waalkes Afghan woman, 10-18-12
Jeff Waalkes Afghan valley , 10-18-12

Delivery of the parabolic solar cookers to the Kirghiz tribe arrive on the backs of yaks.

  • October 2012: Parabolic solar cookers delivered to Afghanistan's remote Wakhan Corridor - The Kirghiz tribe live at the end of this slender finger of land in northeastern Afghanistan. Their primary fuel source for cooking has been dried yak dung, creating smoky conditions in their yurts. The buffalo-like yaks are used for most of their transportation needs. In June, Jeff Waalkes in Kirghizstan and Grace Magney with the Global Hope Network in Kabul were able to deliver ten parabolic solar cookers to the tribe. Grace organized the procurement and had the cookers loaded onto a truck. Jeff's responsibility was to get the truck into the Wakhan Corridor, and where the road petered out, strap everything including the solar cookers to the backs of yaks to deliver them to the Kirghiz. Initially hesitant, members of the tribe were soon cooking food and boiling water.

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Audio and video

  • October 2014:
Solar_Cooker_Success_in_Afghanistan!

Solar Cooker Success in Afghanistan!

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Telephone: 41 221 41 00 28

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