Peru

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News and Recent Developments

• November 2008: In late 2006, Acciónatura, a Spanish NGO, approached Solar Household Energy (SHE) about implementing a project in Peru with their Peruvian partner NGO. While they had the funding to buy the HotPots and implement the project, they did not have the solar cooking technical expertise. Therefore, they requested in-country technical solar cooking support from Solar Household Energy (SHE). SHE signed a Terms of Reference with Acciónatura to work in a consortium with Asociación de Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN) to conduct a solar cooking project. The solar cooking trainings were launched in mid-April outside of Lucre, Peru (about 30 kilometers from Cuzco). During five separate trainings, 100 women learned solar cooking techniques. Traditional Peruvian dishes, estofada (chicken and potato stew), rice, and baked peaches were cooked. All the women were extremely impressed with the ability of the HotPot to cook traditional food. In the coming months, the women will attend follow-up meetings where they will share solar cooking experiences. Additionally, the women will participate in a work-exchange program. In the work-exchange program, the women will plant trees in a reforestation project, conduct solar cooking demonstrations in their communities, and conduct solar cooking demonstrations at a regional food fair.

• February 2007: Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking

The History of Solar Cooking in Peru

Two staff members of the Centro de la Familia Anna Dengel in Arequipa, Peru undertook a pilot project early in the 1990s. The project included both a pilot and an implementation stage. In the pilot part, they considered a range of cooker designs, and settled on a box cooker of cardboard. After that decision, an implementation process involved the construction of 30 cookers by persons who were also trained in cooking methods. All 30 persons were able to complete the construction process successfully.

Next, 24 people were trained in use of the cooker; 80% or 19 family cooks successfully used the boxes they had made. With that project behind them, the two promoters began to seek additional resources to expand their efforts. To the best of our knowledge, they were not successful in locating funds for a larger effort.

Currently, each is however working separately to promote cookers. Sister Patricia Gootee continues to make and sell a small number of cookers, and Geovana Rivera also teaches solar cooking, and designs and builds new types of cookers.

More recently, a Center of Renewable Energy has been created in Lima. Its work includes design, research, and construction of several models of solar cookers. In addition, Jorge Armando Choque Chacolla, of the Centro Poblado Menor in Tacna, an Andean area, is also working to spread solar cooking in mountainous areas.

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

Climate, Culture, and Special Considerations

• Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables

Resources

Possible funders for solar cooking projects in Peru

• Asociación Arariwa
• FINCA Peru
• Microfinanzas Prisma
• Manuela Ramos / CrediMUJER
• Edpyme Alternativa
• Caja Rural Señor de Luren

Reports

• Case Study of Solar Stoves Made and Used in the Peruvian Andes For the Peru Children’s Trust.

Blogs

• Amigos de Taquile

Articles in the media

• August 6: ¿En qué sector debe estar Sierra Productiva? - Correco
• February 2007: Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking

Web pages

• Preguntas Frecuentes de la Cocción Solar
• Peru Children’s Trust page on solar cooking (También en español).

Audio and video

• Dozens of Spanish-language videos showing solar cooking activities - TubeOli

Contacts

The entities listed below are either based in Peru, or have established solar cooking projects there:

SCI Associates

Main article: Solar Cookers International Association

NGOs

• Amigos de Taquile
• Centro de Capacitación para el Desarrollo
• Friendly Appropriate Solar Technologies
• Inti
• S.T.E.V.E.N. Foundation
• Sol Solidari

Manufacturers and vendors

• HC Solar
• Inti

Individuals

• Sam Brown
• Tara Miller

See Also

• Click here for the complete list of Solar Cooking Wiki articles related to Peru