Solar Cooks and Scholars

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SolarCooks and Carpenters is supported financially by a group of social activists on Canada's west coast called "The Raging Grannies of Salt Spring Island" and by our friends and family. We provide sunstoves, training, food and personal letters to grandmothers in Lesotho.

Our approach, in short, is this:

1. A respected community member selects the needy grandmothers and provides the gathering location for 3 days;

2. Local translator(s) provides all the communication and assists with preparation and training;,

3. Three (3) days hands-on training with food provided by the project; (grandmothers love to call it "school")

4. A different local recipe is cooked each day which grandmothers take home;

5. A Q & A and discussion session is held each day about life, love, Canada, Lesotho and of course, sunstove use and recipes from other grandmothers;

6. Grandmothers are provided with a sunstove, black pots, food, a personal letter from a sponsor in Canada & a graduation "hat pin" made by Bea Brewer of the Raging Grannies;

We now have 58 grandmothers who are using sunstoves to cook meals for themselves and for most of them - for their grandchildren, dry fruit, prepare vegetables for canning and, in winter, to heat water for bathing. A Basotho recipe book is in the works with more sunstoves are going to Lesotho within the next 12 months.

External links

Link to our blog - http://solarcooks-plus.livejournal.com/

Contact

solarcooks_plus@livejournal.com
Canada