The Solar Cookers International East Africa Office manages solar cooker field projects that have served tens of thousands of families in various East African countries.
Staff
Margaret Owino - Regional Director
News and recent developments
- October 2009: Kenya: Entrepreneurs Cashing in on Green Campaign - Business Daily (Nairobi)
- October 2009: A training of trainers took place in Musoma, Tanzania for the Global Resource Alliance. Thirty Tanzanians graduated as solar cooking trainers. The training was provided by Solar Cookers International and Solar Cooking Kenya. Participants learned to prepare and cook a wide variety of foods, pasteurize water and how to build and use their own solar cookers and fireless cookers.
- Spring 2009: Hamomi Children's Centre Starts Cooking Solar - Lift Up Africa
- February 2009: The photo on the right shows a community group in the Siaya District of western Kenya that just had a demo by the Solar Cookers International East Africa Office. The demo was given in a local market place with local authority figures present and these wonderful "guardians" of nearly 350 orphans. More information...
- Fall 2006: The Kenyan government is gradually warming up to the potential of solar energy in complementing conventional energy sources. In a two day fair at the KICC, the government called together solar thermal and solar photovoltaic promoters as well as government officers from the districts to discuss the possibilities. SCI (EA) gave a short presentation emphasizing that solar energy does not only heat water and give light but that it also cooks! Outside the conference center, a big solar cooking exhibition stole the show. Seeing water boil and foods cook and tasting a solar-baked cake was a dramatic confirmation! The Minister for energy himself was on hand to cut the solar Valentine cake and try his hand at cooking naturally! Three more solar energy fairs were planned for Central, Coast and Nyanza provinces later in the year.
Newsletters
suNews was published twice a year by Solar Cookers International East Africa Office:
Prices
We have solar CooKits going for 1,200 per complete set and fireless cookers going for between 600 - 1,000/=.
Our current price list is:
- One solar cooking kit - includes on CooKit, a black pot with a black lid, 4 plastic bags) = 1,200/=
- Water Pasteurization indicator (WAPI) = 150/= each.
- A parabolic cooker - assembled on order = 18,000/=
- Box / oven type cookers range from 4,000 shillings upwards depending on the size.
- Fireless cookers, different sizes ranging from 600/= - 1,500/= each.
- We also undertake to demonstrate how the cooker works, even train on how to make and also train trainers at a fee that is negotiated.
SCI also distributes solar cookers out of Musoma, Tanzania through TanzSolar and Global Resource Alliance (GRA).
See also
- Parent organization: Solar Cookers International
- Semi-annual newsletter: suNews
- Director: Margaret Owino
- Sunny Solutions
- Simplest Solar Cookers and Women's Micro-Enterprise - Margaret Owino
- Refugee camps
- TanzSolar
- Global Resource Alliance
Contact
Solar Cookers International East Africa Office
P.O. Box 51190-00200
Nairobi
Kenya
Physical address: Githunguri Road, Kileleshwa, Sumbeiywo flats, there is a sign hanging over the hedge and at the gate
Tel/fax: +254-2-04347295, +254-2-04347144
Mobile: + 254-2-0722 305 895