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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 Anrmanda 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

Documents

Reports

Articles in the media

February 2007: Rotarians help Peruvians learn solar cooking

Contacts

A complete list of NGOs and individuals working in Peru is available in the International Directory of Solar Cooking Promotors.

NGOs based in or working in the Peru

Individuals

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