The Denan Project

From Solar Cooking

Denan is a small town with a camp for refugees and internally displaced persons located in the Ogaden region of remote eastern Ethiopia. It is not far from the border of Somalia and about 80 kilometers from Gode, the nearest town with electricity... sometimes. The Ogaden region is populated mostly by ethnic Somalis and has been devastated by drought, famine and an armed separatist movement. Temperatures soar daily to well over 110 degrees creating some of the most unbearable living conditions in all of Africa. The Denan Project was founded to provide qualified medical care to the people of Denan Ethiopia for the first time. Our hospital pictured below is the only free acute medical care in the Ogaden region which is populated by 4 million people.

[Text borrowed from http://www.thedenanproject.com.]

[edit] News and recent developments

• March 2008: The Denan Project will be donating a solar oven to bake 400 loaves of bread a day to feed the patients in the hospital and to sell to the community

[edit] Contact

http://www.thedenanproject.com