Net Generation Tanzania Guatemala
From Solar Cooking
People in many parts of Tanzania and Guatemala (as well as other parts of the world) spend as much time and money on fuel to cook their food as they spend on buying their food. Women spend up to 40 hours per week gathering firewood. Total regions of Tanzania have been stripped of trees, thus adding to the destruction of the eco-economy and any preservation of family living in that area. Gathering wood for fuel exacerbates the status of women in their society, as after many hours of walking and gathering, they return to their tribe filthy laden and exhausted, thus many times shunned by their mates. In addition, and very importantly, the respiratory problems of women and girls cooking in standalone kitchen rooms will be greatly diminished by using solar ovens.
Because women spend so many hours gathering firewood, fewer girls attend school. The literacy rate for women in Tanzania is 50% (Men 60%). With more time for other tasks, mothers could let their daughters stay in school. Cooking over open fires causes many burns and is the #1 cause of injury in Tanzanian women; many small children are also seriously burned from being around their mothers while they are cooking at the open fires.
[This text was borrowed from http://www.matthewkieren.com/rctc/netgen/index.php on March 5, 2009.]
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