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Most importantly, since September I have been volunteering at Holy Family Home, a hospice facility in Parma, Ohio. I have become friends with the chaplain at Holy Family who works with the dying people. His name is Fr. Alexander Inke and he is from a village by the name of Obia in the district of Nebbi in Uganda, Africa. In February I was at Holy Family visiting with the patients. Fr. Inke was telling my family about his life in Uganda. I found out that one of his brothers died from drinking contaminated water, and he has also lost another brother and three other family members due to illness or disease. Fr. Inke’s mother is now raising 8 grandchildren and she spends a lot of her day looking for wood to make a fire to cook and for water to give her grandchildren. This made me very sad and reminded me of what I wrote in my report on why using solar cookers (and solar water pasteurizers) would be helpful to many people in Africa. I know now that if more people can use solar cookers they can spend more time working, getting an education and being with their families. The women will also be safer and the environment will be better.
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Most importantly, since September I have been volunteering at Holy Family Home, a hospice facility in Parma, Ohio. I have become friends with the chaplain at Holy Family who works with the dying people. His name is Fr. Alexander Inke and he is from a village by the name of Obia, located in Zeu, district of Nebbi in Uganda, Africa. In February I was at Holy Family visiting with the patients. Fr. Inke was telling my family about his life in Uganda. I found out that one of his brothers died from drinking contaminated water, and he has also lost another brother and three other family members due to illness or disease. Fr. Inke’s mother is now raising 8 grandchildren and she spends a lot of her day looking for wood to make a fire to cook and for water to give her grandchildren. This made me very sad and reminded me of what I wrote in my report on why using solar cookers (and solar water pasteurizers) would be helpful to many people in Africa. I know now that if more people can use solar cookers they can spend more time working, getting an education and being with their families. The women will also be safer and the environment will be better.
   
   

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My name is Max Ozimek and I am 13 years old and a 7th grader at Incarnate Word Academy in Parma Heights, Ohio. This year I did a school science project on solar cooking. I did a lot of research and the Solar Cookers website was very helpful. I received an “honorable mention” for the project at my school, and an “excellent” rating from the Ohio Academy of Science Awards.


Most importantly, since September I have been volunteering at Holy Family Home, a hospice facility in Parma, Ohio. I have become friends with the chaplain at Holy Family who works with the dying people. His name is Fr. Alexander Inke and he is from a village by the name of Obia, located in Zeu, district of Nebbi in Uganda, Africa. In February I was at Holy Family visiting with the patients. Fr. Inke was telling my family about his life in Uganda. I found out that one of his brothers died from drinking contaminated water, and he has also lost another brother and three other family members due to illness or disease. Fr. Inke’s mother is now raising 8 grandchildren and she spends a lot of her day looking for wood to make a fire to cook and for water to give her grandchildren. This made me very sad and reminded me of what I wrote in my report on why using solar cookers (and solar water pasteurizers) would be helpful to many people in Africa. I know now that if more people can use solar cookers they can spend more time working, getting an education and being with their families. The women will also be safer and the environment will be better.


Fr. Inke did not know that I have been studying solar cooking since last October. When he was telling me about all this I was thinking that I could help. Fr. Inke will be going to Uganda at the end of April 2008 for two months. He told me that it is one of his dreams to have clean water for his village and to build a small clinic where people can go to get help for medical problems.


I have started a project to introduce solar cooking to the people in Fr. Inke’s village. There are 600 people there at least although Fr. Inke thinks more refugees from Congo have been coming to his town recently. I am raising funds and working with the people at Solar Cookers International to do this. Fr. Inke will take a few solar cookers home with him when he visits Uganda, and I am trying to set up a meeting with a man in Uganda who is very active in promoting solar cooking, Mr. Kawesa Mukasa. I am also raising funds to purchase solar cookers, supplies and water purification indicators to show if the water is safe to drink. I also will raise funds to have a solar cooking trainer come from Kenya to begin to show the people in Fr. Inke' village how solar cooking might be beneficial to them.


Please feel free to contact me and my mom Mary Lou Ozimek if you would like information on my project or if you want to support me. I am very excited to be working on this project and I hope my work will make a difference.


Thank you for your interest,

Max Ozimek

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Max Ozimek c/o Mary Lou Ozimek [1]