The Organisation for Rural Education Simplicity (ORES) is a charitable organisation for the promotion of basic education and child-centred development based in Cameroon. We are pleased to announce that after 12 months of research, we have succeeded to produce the ORES Free Energy Cooker, a solar oven which we think should meet the needs of many communities in Cameroon. Apart from what we know about the box cooker, it employs the pressure pot principle to cook food above ordinary boiling temperatures. When in operation one can actually hear the hissing noise of the pressure pot, though to a lower degree. This is certainly its unique feature which goes to improve on the cooking speed. The highest temperature attained is 130° C.
Our cooker can cook enough food for five persons. It is well adapted for local meals. It is good for boiling, example dried beans as one can see in the photograph, dried corn, yams ,rice, plantains, achu coco, etc. It can bake bread and cakes. It is portable and durable. Market price for it is 25000 francs .CFA or about US$50. This price is also negotiable. Remember when you buy our cooker you support our work with the people you see in our website.
The other photos on the right reveal how we started the research. All along, we used locally available materials so that the cooker could be reliable, durable and affordable to ordinary people.
Energy for cooking in Cameroon, is becoming more and more out of reach with continual increases in petroleum products. Poverty level in my country, despite the odds, is growing at an alarming rate. What seem to be the first casualty is education. More and more kids, though enrolled, do not have the most basic requirements for school. It is our belief that the cooker could enable people save money which could help them acquire more school amenities. It is our dream to tie successfully the proceeds of using the solar cooker to better schooling. This research shows ample proof of the fact that us in Africa even with our meager resources can research into our problems and give appropriate solutions. It is our hope that the product would sell and thus generate badly needed funds for our charity organisation.
My gratitude goes to you people of SCI. There's no way this research could have attained this level without the knowledge I got from the Solar Cooking Archive. I pray that you continue with the good work.
Julius Shenga - Physics High School teacher and Secretary General of ORES
Contact
Julius Shenga T
P.O. box 5165
Bamenda
Cameroon
Tel 2377525472
orescameroon@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/orescameroon.
