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{{CountryPageHeader|Solar Cooker Workshop in Darfur|Video showing the [[Darfur Peace and Development Organization]] solar cooking project. This is a solar cooker workshop in Nyala, Darfur. As the women look for firewood around the displacement camps they face the danger of rape and abduction. Solar cooking offers an alternative to using firewood for cooking.}}
 
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==News and Recent Developments==
 
*'''December 2012: Jewish World Watch, originator of the Solar Cooker Project for Sudanese refugees, reviews their current programs at several of the refugee camps in Chad''' – As a result of a joint security force between [[Chad]] and [[Sudan]], violence against women has declined some since the project began seven years ago. [[Cord]], their partner at the [[Farchana Refugee Camp|Farchana refugee camp]], sees solar cooking as a way to keep girls in school, and not spending hours finding [[fuelwood]] for cooking. For others, the project has meant help for the environment and the air quality conditions for women previously using open fires. When the [[Jewish World Watch]] contingent first visited the camps many years ago, the refugees had just arrived and the encampment was meant to be temporary. The hope and expectation was that within a few months or a couple of years at most; they would return to their homes. But now, seven years later, it is clear that returning to Darfur is not a reality and the camps are turning into permanent settlements. As a result, the programs for the refugees must begin to move away from survival resources and begin to address ways of achieving self-sufficiency and permanence. In other words, helping to create a life, not an existence. Future larger scale solutions will be needed to address and benefit the surrounding communities, as well as the refugee camps, to help with the integration of the Sudanese residents. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Read more...]
 
   
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*'''May 2010:''' [[Solar Energy Enterprises]] sponsored a solar lunch in Khartoum with a public demonstration. Lunch was served to 200 people.
 
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*{{NewJul23}}'''July 2023:''' During the recent hostilities in Sudan, the [[Solar Foods]] factory was tragically looted and burned to the ground
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*'''April 2023:''' The over one thousand 100 Suns solar stoves constructed locally and owned by the IDPs and local communities in Sudan until the '''civil war''' broke out on 15th April are proving their usefulness now in these tough times and are reported to being used, when electricity, cooking gas and fuel is difficult to find and even venturing out of the house is risky.[[File:100 Suns Demonstrated to Recipients in Mayo.jpg|thumb|353x353px|The last image received of the 100 Suns solar stove being demonstrated at Mayo locality near Khartoum before the civil war broke out in Sudan.]]
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*{{NewMar23}}'''March 2023:''' [[Media:Solar foods 2-18-2023.pdf, 3-4-23.pdf|Solar Foods located in Sudan, is providing farmers with a way to extend the profitability of their harvests with solar food processing.]] Also they have provided a link to their [[Media:Solar Foods Company Profile 2022.pdf, 3-4-23-compressed.pdf| Solar Foods business profile, October 2022]]
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*{{NewMar23}}'''March 2023: Solar stove production''' - Roll out of '''four thousand''' [[100 Suns|100 Suns solar stoves]] begins in [[Sudan]] with support of the [https://www.undp.org/ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)], and will be manufactured wholly by indigenous communities.
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[[File:100 Suns at 2 degrees IIT GN.jpg|thumb|200px|[[100 Suns]] solar stove installed at 2 Degrees Cafe in IIT Gandhinagar]]
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*{{NewDec22}}'''December 2022:''' 100 Suns wins the National [https://www.energyglobe.info/national/winner/sudan Energy Globe Award] in [[Sudan]] for its initiative in the country: training refugees, IDPs and host communities in constructing and operating 100 Suns solar stoves.
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[[File:Alaa_Hamadto,_12-9-19_copy.jpg|thumb||200px|Dr. Alaa Hamadto, CEO and cofounder of [[Solar Foods]]]]
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*{{NewDec19}}'''December 2019: New food processing company in Sudan''' - [[Solar Foods]] was established in 2017 by Dr. Alaa Hamadto to bring solar-dried foods to the marketplace, using solar dryers from her father's company, [[Solar Energy Enterprises]].
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*{{NewNov19}}'''April 2018:''' [https://www.facebook.com/MITEnterpriseForumPanArabRegion/posts/10156220466907158 Solar Foods is First Runner-Up in the MIT Arab Startup Competition.]
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*{{NewFeb18}}'''February 2018: Solar Box Cooker Promotion Model in Alkiryab Village''' - [[Mawahib Ahmed]] reports: Solar cooking technology in Sudan started at research level since 70’s in Energy Research Institute but till now the technology doesn’t reach deployment stage. There were very limited efforts had been done during the last 40 years ,by some organization like UNIDO and NGOs like Sudanese environment Conservation Society for technology dissemination. Solar box cooker (SBC) is most appropriate for household use, but it needs to be adapted to Sudanese cooking pattern. Sudan like other least developing countries suffer from access to energy services, the most affected sector is household. Now there is a problem of affordability and accessibility for LPG as alterative for [[charcoal]], providing environmental problem that comes from the use of charcoal. Solar cooking saves from 40-50% of fuel when it is used with other alternative like LPG or charcoal. A model is being developed as a pilot project in Alkiryab village 18 km from Khartoum. The beneficiaries are women, the SBC was introduced with other energy alternative which is LPG gas cooker as one package The beneficiaries are 12 women. The overall goal of the model is to establish model for household energy conservation that includes solar box cooker that can applied in all Sudan. Other objectives are i) To access solar box cooker in targeted communities with reasonable price ii) To encourage women to use the solar box cooker as one of the alternative at home. The model is initiated by National Center for Research (Appropriate Technology Department, Institute of Engineering Research and Material technology), The responsible researcher is Dr. Mawahib Eltayeb Ahmed. The main partner is El Badail Company which is private company assigned to provide LPG gas cylinder, LPG cooker and SBC. The third partner is AlEbdaa bank is the financial body, which finance 12 women as micro finance project(18 months with 1% profit). Social responsibility money from Dal group (one of big private sector) support the price by 70%. There are some benefits gained from Solar Box Cooker introduction firstly it is clean and healthy technology women saved from 40-50% LPG monthly, accordingly there is money saved, secondly some women use it in for income generating activity by selling cup cakes or beans finally women can be part of [[carbon market]] credit.
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[[File:Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Comany_rooftop_kitchen_at_Family_Bank,_12-13-16.png|thumb|200px|Officials of the Sudanese Family Bank are convinced to support a [[microfinance]] program, in cooperation with [[Solar Energy Enterprises Company]], with a three-day solar 'cook-in' on the rooftop of bank headquarters.]]
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*{{NewDec16}}'''December 2016: Sudanese bank supports solar cooking initiative''' - The [[Solar Energy Enterprises Company]], under the direction of [[Salih Hamadto]], has convinced the Sudanese Family Bank to participate in financing solar cookers through their [[microfinance]] program, which is well established in Sudan. After initial interest, Salih established a temporary solar cooking kitchen on the rooftop of bank headquarters in Khartoum. With three [[parabolic]] and four [[box]] solar cookers, they prepared meals for staff and visitors over a three-day period. A business plan was established incorporating cost, logistical matters, advocacy, maintenance, and training of new trainers.
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[[File:Salih_Hamadto,_metal_box_cooker,_10-12-16.png|thumb|200px|The new all-metal [[solar box cooker]] from the [[Solar Energy Enterprises Company]]. ''Photo credit: Solar Energy Enterprises Company'']]
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*{{NewOct16}}'''October 2016: New box cooker in production''' - [[Salih Hamadto]] has announced his [[Solar Energy Enterprises Company]] has begun production of their all-metal [[solar box cooker]]. The use of rugged construction materials is intended to ensure a long service life for the cooker.
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[[File:SEEC-_parabolic_cooker,_S._Hamadto,_5-4-16.png|thumb|200px|Student at [[SEEC]] training facility]]
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*{{NewMay16}}'''May 2016:''' [[Salih Hamadto]], Director of the [[Solar Energy Enterprises Company]] (SEEC), presents a summary of the training program they provide to students of sustainable technologies as they apply to single user and [[institutional]] scale projects. Solar cooking is very much part of the program incorporating [[parabolic]] and [[box cooker]] approaches. '''Read his report:''' [[Media:Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Sudan_2010.pdf|(SEEC) Industrial Development of Solar Cookers in Sudan]] - ''[[Salih Hamadto]]''
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[[File:Salih_Hamadto_April_2016.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Salih Hamadto]]: Solar Cooking on Earth Day]]
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*{{NewApr16}}'''April 2016:''' [[Salih Hamadto]] writes: "Solar Cooking on Earth Day - We show some recent public lunches. They were meant to promote solar cooking, especially in the eyes of aid workers and government officials. The first post depicts photos of a public lunch thrown a few months ago during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of [[Practical Action]], an NGO that has operated in Sudan for over 40 years. The main theme was “Technology Justice”: The Global Right to Access Sustainable Technologies. Following a talk I gave, and the very comprehensive solar lunch, it was universally agreed that solar cooking is an overlooked opportunity for technology justice in Sudan and Sub-Saharan Africa. A dialogue was started to deal with this. The celebration was under the patronage of Dr. Tahani Abdalla Attia, Minister of Communications and Information Technology."
   
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*'''May 2010:''' As part of it's continual program of training students, [[Solar Energy Enterprises]] (SEEC) has sponsored a B Sc graduation project in Khartoum, [[Sudan]] to research revenue-generating cooking using the recently developed SEEC solar box cooker. Two fifth year students produced quality pumpkin jam and cookies. Their project established cooking procedures for users. The results were backed by proper biochemical and microbiological analysis at the university labs. ''[Note: Only fruit should be canned in a solar cooker without pressure. See: [[Canning]]]''
 
   
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[[File:Yei,_Sudan_stove_relief.jpg|thumb|300px|Residents of Yei, [[Sudan]] cook with their new [[parabolic solar cooker]].]]
 
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*'''May 2010:''' Two years ago, [[Pat Hipp]] traveled to Yei, [[Sudan]] as part of a medical mission. Everywhere in Yei, the tops of trees had been cut out. This was because the wood was being used for cooking; and to buy charcoal, you had to deal with the black market. Currently they are raising funds to bring [[parabolic solar cooker]]s to the community.
 
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[[File:A_solar_meal_in_El_Yousif,_Sudan.jpg_.jpg|thumb|A solar meal in El Yousif]][[File:Volunteers_in_Fort_Wayne,_Indiana_(USA)_are_making_corrugated_plastic_solar_cookers_for_displaced_families_in_Darfur.jpg|thumb|Volunteers in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) are making corrugated plastic solar cookers.]][[File:Women_spend_less_time_and_energy_foraging_for_firewood_outside_of_IDP_camps_when_they_use_solar_CooKits.jpg_.jpg|thumb|[[CooKit]]s in use in IPD camps]]
 
*'''April 2010:''' [[Stephen Harrigan]] runs a U.S.-based nonprofit organization called [[Solar Clutch]] that designs and produces solar cookers for distribution to impoverished parts of the world. His cookers include a corrugated plastic solar box cooker called the [[Sun Scoop]] and a panel-type solar cooker made from woven baskets and modified clay water pots common in Sudan, called the [[Borma]]. Through Solar Clutch, Harrigan also offers consultation and training services to organizations wishing to set up solar cooker programs. In 2006, Harrigan helped the [[Darfur Peace and Development Organization]] (DPDO) begin a solar cooker training program for women displaced due to persistent conflict in Darfur. After much research and experimentation, he prepared a solar cooking training model for DPDO. Harrigan selected [[Solar Cookers International]]’s cardboard and foil solar [[CooKit]] as the primary solar cooker to be used due to its low cost and simplicity. Though the solar cookers are being made locally in Sudan, DPDO has also imported several hundred more durable corrugated plastic versions made by volunteers in the United States. Volunteers in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) are making corrugated plastic solar cookers for displaced families in Darfur, complete with uplifting personal messages written on the backs (photo: Solar Clutch) From the beginning, Harrigan believed that DPDO’s infrastructure and ongoing work in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps would be useful in promoting solar cooking. Solar cookers make a lot of sense in these camps because traditional cooking fuels, especially firewood, are in short supply, and the women that forage outside the camps for firewood must not only walk ever greater distances to find firewood, but also risk their personal safety. DPDO reports having trained 321 IDPs to solar cook from 2006 through mid-2009. Workshops have taken place in a number of camps and towns, including: Kalma and Sakali IDP camps in South Darfur, El Fasher town and Kassab IDP camp in North Darfur, and Omdurman and Haj Yousif towns in Khartoum. Women spend less time and energy foraging for firewood outside of IDP camps when they use solar CooKits (photo: DPDO) According to DPDO’s Web site, “workshop participants quickly recognized the time- and money-saving benefits of the cookers, and learned to prepare all of the traditional Sudanese foods. [They] … continue to experiment with recipes, develop cooking-time charts, and conduct training workshops within their communities. DPDO subsidizes training workshops and provides supplies and training expertise, manuals, and follow-up assessment of use.” Future trainings have been scheduled for DPDO women’s centers in Kassab and Abu-Shouk camps, the latter of which was visited by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration in September 2009. Many of the women at the center had previously been trained and were solar cooking when Gration visited. DPDO reports that Gration “was impressed with [the women’s] efforts and tasted rice that had been cooked with a solar cooker.”
 
 
*'''October 2009:''' The long awaited solar cooking training for the [[Zalingei refugee camp]] in [[Sudan]] took place. [[Faustine Odaba]] and [[Simon Ogutu]] flew from [[Kenya]] and conducted a training for fifty trainers. Assisting them was Kharama who had been trained here in Kenya in 2007. The whole experience was heart lifting as the sound of music was heard once again amongst the refugee women who has suffered so much due to the civil war in Sudan. materials. In the end everyone received a certificate and a UNHCR representative presented each trainee with a solar cooker. These trainers were expected to train others and disseminate the remaining 1,750 [[CooKits]]. [[Solar Cookers International]] appreciated the efforts of the Danish Refugee Council, the sponsors, as well as UNHCR.
 
[[Image:International_Organization_for_Migration_Sudan_-_Jan_2009.jpg|right|300px]]
 
 
*'''January 2009:''' The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is partnering with UNICEF and the [[International Organization for Migration]] (IOM), a leading inter-governmental organization with offices in over 100 countries, to introduce solar cookers to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Darfur, [[Sudan]]. Based on input from a survey conducted by UNIDO, a prototype solar box cooker was developed and tested with women’s groups in Khartoum. For the pilot phase of the project, 10 ethnically diverse women from [[El Serief Internally Displaced Persons Camp]] learned how to use the solar cookers during three days of training. (El Serief is home to approximately 13,000 IDPs from 21 ethnic groups.) The training culminated with successfully solar cooking several traditional dishes. Eight of the 10 women continued to regularly use their solar cookers after a month-long trial, with several hoping to cook not only for their families but also to bake goods for sale. According to the IOM Sudan Newsletter, one of the 10 women — Ms. Hawa Abker, who has lived at El Serief since 2005 — reported being happy about her solar cooker because she spends less money on charcoal and firewood for cooking. “I am saving two Sudanese pounds per day,” she says. IOM and UNICEF plan to scale up the project, hoping to reach an additional 500 women during the months following the pilot phase. A primary goal of the project is to reduce sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls that are vulnerable while collecting firewood away from the camp.
 
 
*'''September 2008:''' On the edge of Khartoum in the area of North Omdurman we found many thousands of IDPs. They came from not only Darfur but from the Nuba Mountains as well as from others parts of Sudan. These are often the ones who are forgotten by the NGO groups giving help and assistance. They too have to scrounge for a means to cook their food. Often they have to buy charcoal or propane gas to do this as firewood is not available. Every week at least 5-6 Sudanese Pounds are spent to cook the meager food supply. When asked what kinds of food they normally eat the reply was: “ There isn’t any food that is normal, its rather whatever food is available.” This group of IDP were overjoyed at the solar cooker training we gave. We sent them out to buy pots, paint and glue for their own cooking efforts. This group has become the first group to reproduce themselves and the solar cooker effort in Khartoum. View a video of the Omdurman solar cooker training: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtftdqhCp2Q&feature=user
 
 
*'''September 2008:''' The Kassab IDP camp was tucked away in the northern part of Darfur near the town of Kutum. It has a well established infrastructure for food and water supplies. There are also other strong cohesiveness elements that make this a very good place for solar cooking. We met with about 60 camp elders to explain the plan of DPDO to introduce solar cooking to the women. The elders gave us their blessing and later in the day wandered into our training area. After eating the meat we cooked with the sun we knew we had passed the test. As we drove out of the camp in the afternoon we saw one of our lady students demonstrating to a group of men the way the solar cooker works. To see a video of this training in Kassab camp go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63BHacGCQDc&feature=user
 
 
*'''September 2008:''' DPDO teamed up with Ngo group Practical Action in El Fashir North Darfur to do a solar cooker workshop. Students came from not only DPDO and PA but from IDP camps surrounding El Fashir. Women from Abuja camp and Abshouk camps were eager to learn what solar cooking was all about. Even the Sudanese officials from the Humanitarian Aid Commission sent a lady to our sessions. We were happy to train her too! Our host facility was the House of Learning. Teaching was done by lecture as well as hands on interaction with solar cookers and how to construct them. The students made all their own cookers from cardboard and aluminum foil. They painted the cooking pots black and got all their supplies ready for graduation day! Graduation is a happy and great occasion but the real test is whether these students will teach others in the IDP camp!!! Back in Abshouk IDP area two of our women trainees took this solar cooking seriously. They began to gather a group of women that they had been teaching concerning fire issues and used it to teach about solar cooking!!
 
 
*'''September 2008:''' Many thousands of displaced people from Darfur also live in Khartoum the capitol of Sudan. This is also a very important area to introduce solar cooking. In February of 2008 DPDO taught a group of men and women in the El Hajusif region of the city how to make and use solar cookers. One of the women students had been a refugee all the way in Iridimi camp in Chad. She had done solar cooking there with Kozon and was very anxious to get back into the solar cooking mode again. The sun shines with brutal intensity in Khartoum an the heat from the sunbaked homes makes us feel like we are already living in a huge solar oven!
 
[[Image:Culinary_Institute_of_Africa_Sudan_2008.jpg|right|thumb|253px|Students at the Culinary Institute of Africa can add another skill to their resume: solar cook]]
 
 
*'''March 2008:''' [[Louise Meyer]] reports on a group of internally displaced persons that are students at the [[Culinary Institute of Africa]]. As part of their curriculum they are learning how to solar cook. Meyer sent photographs of several students taking “Masters of Solar Cooking” classes at the Institute’s school in Juba, Sudan. Based in Lokichoggio, [[Kenya]], the non-profit Culinary Institute of Africa is a community service division of the AFEX Group, which provides a number of management and catering services to camps throughout Kenya, Sudan, and elsewhere. The Institute began in 2004 when [[Terry Light]], chief operating officer of [[AFEX]], asked [[Nancy Crooks]] to train local Turkana with skills that could gain them employment at various camps and other institutions in the region. With technical assistance from [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI), Crooks was able to incorporate solar cooker use and construction into the curriculum. The Institute offers an accredited, professional culinary education leading to a diploma in food production. SCI also provided training services and helped Crooks secure funding from the [[Lift Up Africa]] organization for a solar cooker project to teach Turkana women how to make and use solar cookers, [[Heat-retention cooking|heat-retention devices]], and [[Water Pasteurization Indicator]]s (WAPIs), as well as start a small solar cooker shop.
 
 
*'''December 2007:''' The [[International Organization for Migration]] (IOM) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) jointly conducted a three-day training session on newly developed solar cookers from 11 to 13 December 2007. The training course was facilitated by an experienced national consultant for ten women living in Serif IDP Camp. The IDP camp is located in West Nyala and is currently home to an estimated 13,000 individuals. The ten women trained learnt how to use the solar cooker to prepare traditional Sudanese dishes. UNIDO provided raw cooking materials for use during the training. On 16 December IOM monitored the group of women and found that eight of the trained women were using the solar cooking for boiling water, cooking potatoes and eggs. The use of such stoves will reduce reliance upon firewood, the collection of which often creates physical risks for women when leaving the safety of the camp, and impacts negatively on the local environment (Source: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MUMA-7A44DN?OpenDocument).
 
 
*'''October 2007:''' [http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224765.html?series=37 Efficient (wood-burning) Cookstove Saves Refugee Lives in Sudan's Darfur Region] - ''Popular Mechanics''
 
 
*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/node/8236 To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel''
 
 
[[Image:DPADO_March_2007.jpg|right|100px]]
 
*'''April 2007:''' The nonprofit [[Darfur Peace and Development Organization]] (DPADO) is incorporating solar cooking as part of its project to establish women’s centers for displaced Darfurians in Sudan. The solar cooking component is coordinated by [[Stephen Harrigan]], who has built and experimented with solar cookers and has demonstrated their use in Darfur. According to Harrigan, DPADO has "a large local Sudanese infrastructure already in place in Darfur to really promote this well" in camps for displaced people. He hopes to begin training in Khartoum this spring. See [[Media:Darfur_Peace_and_Development_Org_-_May_2007_Report.pdf|May 2007 report on solar cooking activities]]. '''''Contact:''''' ''[[Darfur Peace and Development Organization]]''
 
 
*'''February 2007:''' [[Jewish World Watch]] is now coordinating donations for people wishing to donate to provide solar cookers to the Darfur refugees in Chad.
 
 
*'''February 2007:''' The [http://solarcooking.org/prize_for_humanity_2007.htm 2007 "Prize for Humanity"] goes to one Dutch and two Africans — [[Derk Rijks]], [[Marie-Rose Neloum]], and [[Gillhoube Patallet]] — who aided Darfur refugees by arranging the distribution of thousands of solar cookers.
 
 
[[Image:Iridimi_Refugee_Camp_CooKits1_2006.jpg|left|thumb|192px]]
 
*'''August 2006:''' [[Solar Cookers International]] (SCI) is partnering with [[The KoZon Foundation]], a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] charitable group, to assist Darfur refugees living in Chad. In 2004, KoZon volunteer [[Derk Rijks]] trained fifteen women in the capital, N'Djamena. He returned in early 2005, after getting approval from the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR), to start a solar cooker demonstration project at [[Iridimi Refugee Camp]], one of the camps hosting Darfur refugees. [[Marie-Rose Néloum]], one of the previously trained women, took the plight of the refugees to heart and joined Rijks to train refugee women to use solar [[CooKit]]s and teach others, starting in early 2005. Women responded very enthusiastically and those who learned to solar cook fulfilled their promise to teach others. [[CooKit]]s were soon assembled on-site by refugee women, who earn an income through this activity. A production workshop was completed in early 2006. The workshop is located in a neutral zone of the camp, close to the offices of the camp administrator, [[CARE]]. Refugee women from each of the camp's ten zones take turns training new groups of five to six people. The refugee women at Iridimi camp, as well as head trainer Néloum and two other staff, have persevered in promoting solar cooking even as the security situation has grown increasingly unstable since April 2006. As of July 2006 Iridimi camp had 32 certified solar cooking trainers, 21 [[CooKit]] assemblers, 566 trained families, and 1200 [[CooKits]] distributed, two to four per tent. Fifty-four women were interviewed in July 2006. Thirty-nine of them solar cook every day; twelve solar cook five to six days a week; and three solar cook two to four days a week. To minimize their reliance on firewood, many families would like to maximize use of all their [[CooKit]]s. However, about a quarter of the families have sold one or more of their cooking pots in exchange for precious food. [[SCI]] and [[The KoZon Foundation]] are working together to provide supplies to make [[CooKit]]s, training, monitoring and accountability to brighten the lives of Darfur refugees at [[Iridimi camp]] in [[Chad]]. Groups and organizations such as the [[Darfur Assistance Projec]]t and [[Jewish World Watch]], both based in southern California ([[USA]]), and many individuals have donated to SCI in support of this project. Additional logistical and communications support from [[UNHCR]] and [[CARE International]] is invaluable in continuing project operations. Barring significant disruptions, each Iridimi camp household will have two or more [[CooKit]]s by early 2007.
 
 
==Climate, Culture, and Special Considerations==
 
   
 
[[Solar Cookers International]] has rated Sudan as the #11 country in the world in terms of solar cooking potential (See: [[Media:25_countries_with_most_solar_cooking_potential.pdf|The 25 countries with the most solar cooking potential]]). The estimated number of people in Sudan
 
[[Solar Cookers International]] has rated Sudan as the #11 country in the world in terms of solar cooking potential (See: [[Media:25_countries_with_most_solar_cooking_potential.pdf|The 25 countries with the most solar cooking potential]]). The estimated number of people in Sudan
 
with fuel scarcity in 2020 is 6,600,000.
 
with fuel scarcity in 2020 is 6,600,000.
   
"[T]he availability of firewood in Darfur is dwindling, and women in North Darfur have all but stopped collecting firewood simply because there is none to collect, said Ms. Patrick. The Sudanese Forestry Department has reported total destruction of the environment up to a radius of an hour's walk around the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Darfur—there are virtually no trees and the mining of their roots has prevented regrowth."[http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000093]
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"[T]he availability of firewood in Darfur is dwindling, and women in North Darfur have all but stopped collecting firewood simply because there is none to collect, said Ms. Patrick. The Sudanese Forestry Department has reported total destruction of the environment up to a radius of an hour's walk around the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Darfur—there are virtually no trees and the mining of their roots has prevented regrowth. See: [https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/policy_innovations/briefings/000093 Alternative Fuels Take Root in Refugee Camps]
   
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*{{WikipediaClimate|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan#Geography}}
*[[Africa#Eastern_Africa|Discussion of eastern Africa's suitability for solar cooking]]<br>
 
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*[[Africa#Eastern_Africa|Discussion of eastern Africa's suitability for solar cooking]]<br />
 
*[[Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables]]
 
*[[Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables]]
 
==Audio and Video==
 
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|'''June 2007:''' YouTube video showing Darfur Peace and Development Organization solar cooking project
 
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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
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===Possible [[funders]] of solar cooking projects in Sudan===
 
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*[http://www.kiva.org/about/aboutPartner?id=107 BRAC South Sudan]
 
 
===Reports===
 
===Reports===
*'''May 2007:''' [[Media:Darfur_Peace_and_Development_Org_-_May_2007_Report.pdf|Report on Solar Cooker Workshop - Nyala, Darfur]]
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*{{NewMay16}}'''May 2016:''' [[Media:Solar_Energy_Enterprises_Sudan_2010.pdf|Industrial Development of Solar Cookers in Sudan]] - ''[[Salih Hamadto]]''
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*'''August 2012:''' [[Media:UNEP_Sudan_DAEP_2012.pdf|Alternative Domestic Energy Options for Darfur - A Review]] - ''UNDP'' (Report gives short shrift to solar cooking, but contains other good information about the energy situation in Sudan)
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*{{NewFeb15}}'''May 2008:''' [[Media:muna_rizi.pdf|Cooking in a semi-rural area in Sudan, A case study in al-Sororab]] - ''Muna Rizig and Ben Croxford''
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*'''May 2007:''' [[Media:Darfur_Peace_and_Development_Org_-_May_2007_Report.pdf|Report on Solar Cooker Workshop - Nyala, Darfur]] - ''[[Darfur Peace and Development Organization]]''
   
 
===Articles in the media===
 
===Articles in the media===
 
*'''December 2012:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project] - ''Huffington Post''
 
*'''December 2012:''' [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-buckhantz/jewish-world-watch-solar-cooker-project_b_2259135.html Forward With Intention: Solar Cooker Project] - ''Huffington Post''
 
*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
 
*'''February 2009:''' [http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cookers-save-lives.htm How are solar cookers saving lives in Chad and Darfur?] - ''HowStuffWorks''
*'''May 2008:''' [http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=577&catID=7 Rays of hope for Darfur refugees] - ''Guardian Weekly (UK)''
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*'''May 2008:''' [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/06/darfur-chad Rays of hope for Darfur refugees] - ''Guardian Weekly (UK)''
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*{{NewNov19}}'''January 2008:''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20080314231900/http://www.solarcookers.org/sunspots/december07.html A report on Gabriele's trip to the Darfur refugee camps in Chad]
*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/14658.asp Durbin urges people to action on Darfur - Senator discusses what can be done by individuals] - ''Journal Register''
 
*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2007-32/15493.html To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel''
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*{{NewNov19}}'''November 2007:''' [https://www.montereyherald.com/2007/11/19/cooking-in-darfur/ Cooking in Darfur: Solar stoves cleaner, safer for refugees] - ''Monterey Herald''
 
*'''August 2007:''' [https://web.archive.org/web/20080421173558/http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/14658.asp Durbin urges people to action on Darfur - Senator discusses what can be done by individuals] - ''Journal Register''
 
*'''August 2007:''' [http://www.sentinel.org/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=8236&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=35&S=1 To avert refugee danger, archdiocese joins solar cooker project] - ''Catholic Sentinel''
 
*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor''
 
*'''July 2007:''' [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0726/p01s02-ussc.html Simple sun-cooker takes off as a way to help Darfuris] (includes [http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2007/chadsolar video]) - ''The Christian Science Monitor''
*'''April 2007:''' [http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070421/NEWS01/704210318/1006/NEWS01 Solar cooker project aims to assist Darfur refugees] - ''Poughkeepsie Journal''
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*'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''Long Beach Press Telegram''
*'''April 2007:''' [http://www.norwalkcitizen-news.com/local/ci_5600497 Artists for Peace Concert To Help Darfur Refugees] - ''Norwalk Citizen''
 
*'''March 2007:''' [http://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=6927&TM=82981.36 Hands-on help: Columbia Jewish Congregation gives solar cookers to Darfur refugee women] - ''Washington Jewish Week''
 
*'''February 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5154686 Darfur heroes honored] - ''Long Beach Press Telegram''
 
 
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women]
 
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_5021071 $8 stove life-saving gift to Darfur women]
*'''January 2007:''' [http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/NEWS02/701050343/1024/NEWS08 Katonah, New York concert to provide solar cookers to Darfur refugees]
 
*'''December 2006:''' [http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16208748.htm Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article on the need for solar cookers in Darfur to prevent the rape of women gathering firewood outside of the refugee camps.]
 
   
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===Audio and video===
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::[[File:Sudanese women testing the Solar Stove they constructed on their own-2|400px|thumb|none|Building the [[100 Suns]] solar stove]]
 
*'''August 2010:'''
 
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*'''September 2008:'''
 
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*'''June 2007:'''
 
::[[File:Solar Cooker Workshop in Darfur|none|400px|Darfur Peace and Development Organization solar cooking project]]
 
*'''July 2006:''' [http://solarcooking.org/media/broadcast/default.htm?jongbloed An audio interview with Wietske Jongbloed of the KoZon Foundation]
 
*'''July 2006:''' [http://solarcooking.org/media/broadcast/default.htm?jongbloed An audio interview with Wietske Jongbloed of the KoZon Foundation]
 
===Solar cooker construction plans in Arabic===
 
*[http://solarcooking.org/plans/cookit_ar.htm CooKit]<br>
 
*[http://solarcooking.org/images/minarabic.gif Minimum Box Cooker]<br>
 
*[http://solarcooking.org/images/sol-pas-arabic.gif Solar Water Pasteurizer]<br>
 
   
 
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Video showing the Darfur Peace and Development Organization solar cooking project. This is a solar cooker workshop in Nyala, Darfur. As the women look for firewood around the displacement camps they face the danger of rape and abduction. Solar cooking offers an alternative to using firewood for cooking.

Events[]

Featured international events[]

SE for ALL forum logo 2024, 10-3-23
  • 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...

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Requests for proposal[]

  • Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Sudan

News[]

100 Suns at 2 degrees IIT GN

100 Suns solar stove installed at 2 Degrees Cafe in IIT Gandhinagar

  • December 2022: 100 Suns wins the National Energy Globe Award in Sudan for its initiative in the country: training refugees, IDPs and host communities in constructing and operating 100 Suns solar stoves.
Alaa Hamadto, 12-9-19 copy

Dr. Alaa Hamadto, CEO and cofounder of Solar Foods

  • December 2019: New food processing company in Sudan - Solar Foods was established in 2017 by Dr. Alaa Hamadto to bring solar-dried foods to the marketplace, using solar dryers from her father's company, Solar Energy Enterprises.
  • April 2018: Solar Foods is First Runner-Up in the MIT Arab Startup Competition.
  • February 2018: Solar Box Cooker Promotion Model in Alkiryab Village - Mawahib Ahmed reports: Solar cooking technology in Sudan started at research level since 70’s in Energy Research Institute but till now the technology doesn’t reach deployment stage. There were very limited efforts had been done during the last 40 years ,by some organization like UNIDO and NGOs like Sudanese environment Conservation Society for technology dissemination. Solar box cooker (SBC) is most appropriate for household use, but it needs to be adapted to Sudanese cooking pattern. Sudan like other least developing countries suffer from access to energy services, the most affected sector is household. Now there is a problem of affordability and accessibility for LPG as alterative for charcoal, providing environmental problem that comes from the use of charcoal. Solar cooking saves from 40-50% of fuel when it is used with other alternative like LPG or charcoal. A model is being developed as a pilot project in Alkiryab village 18 km from Khartoum. The beneficiaries are women, the SBC was introduced with other energy alternative which is LPG gas cooker as one package The beneficiaries are 12 women. The overall goal of the model is to establish model for household energy conservation that includes solar box cooker that can applied in all Sudan. Other objectives are i) To access solar box cooker in targeted communities with reasonable price ii) To encourage women to use the solar box cooker as one of the alternative at home. The model is initiated by National Center for Research (Appropriate Technology Department, Institute of Engineering Research and Material technology), The responsible researcher is Dr. Mawahib Eltayeb Ahmed. The main partner is El Badail Company which is private company assigned to provide LPG gas cylinder, LPG cooker and SBC. The third partner is AlEbdaa bank is the financial body, which finance 12 women as micro finance project(18 months with 1% profit). Social responsibility money from Dal group (one of big private sector) support the price by 70%. There are some benefits gained from Solar Box Cooker introduction firstly it is clean and healthy technology women saved from 40-50% LPG monthly, accordingly there is money saved, secondly some women use it in for income generating activity by selling cup cakes or beans finally women can be part of carbon market credit.
Solar Energy Enterprises Comany rooftop kitchen at Family Bank, 12-13-16

Officials of the Sudanese Family Bank are convinced to support a microfinance program, in cooperation with Solar Energy Enterprises Company, with a three-day solar 'cook-in' on the rooftop of bank headquarters.

  • December 2016: Sudanese bank supports solar cooking initiative - The Solar Energy Enterprises Company, under the direction of Salih Hamadto, has convinced the Sudanese Family Bank to participate in financing solar cookers through their microfinance program, which is well established in Sudan. After initial interest, Salih established a temporary solar cooking kitchen on the rooftop of bank headquarters in Khartoum. With three parabolic and four box solar cookers, they prepared meals for staff and visitors over a three-day period. A business plan was established incorporating cost, logistical matters, advocacy, maintenance, and training of new trainers.
Salih Hamadto, metal box cooker, 10-12-16

The new all-metal solar box cooker from the Solar Energy Enterprises Company. Photo credit: Solar Energy Enterprises Company

SEEC- parabolic cooker, S

Student at SEEC training facility

Salih Hamadto April 2016

Salih Hamadto: Solar Cooking on Earth Day

  • April 2016: Salih Hamadto writes: "Solar Cooking on Earth Day - We show some recent public lunches. They were meant to promote solar cooking, especially in the eyes of aid workers and government officials. The first post depicts photos of a public lunch thrown a few months ago during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Practical Action, an NGO that has operated in Sudan for over 40 years. The main theme was “Technology Justice”: The Global Right to Access Sustainable Technologies. Following a talk I gave, and the very comprehensive solar lunch, it was universally agreed that solar cooking is an overlooked opportunity for technology justice in Sudan and Sub-Saharan Africa. A dialogue was started to deal with this. The celebration was under the patronage of Dr. Tahani Abdalla Attia, Minister of Communications and Information Technology."
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Solar Cookers International has rated Sudan as the #11 country in the world in terms of solar cooking potential (See: The 25 countries with the most solar cooking potential). The estimated number of people in Sudan with fuel scarcity in 2020 is 6,600,000.

"[T]he availability of firewood in Darfur is dwindling, and women in North Darfur have all but stopped collecting firewood simply because there is none to collect, said Ms. Patrick. The Sudanese Forestry Department has reported total destruction of the environment up to a radius of an hour's walk around the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Darfur—there are virtually no trees and the mining of their roots has prevented regrowth. See: Alternative Fuels Take Root in Refugee Camps

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Audio and video[]

  • May 2022:
Sudanese_women_testing_the_Solar_Stove_they_constructed_on_their_own-2

Sudanese women testing the Solar Stove they constructed on their own-2

Building the 100 Suns solar stove

  • August 2010:
Solar_Cooking_in_Africa_-_A_Remarkable_Technology_Transfer

Solar Cooking in Africa - A Remarkable Technology Transfer

  • September 2008:
  • June 2007:

Construction plans in Arabic[]

Refugee camps with solar cooking projects[]

See Refugee camps.

Contacts[]

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

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