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==News and Recent Developments== |
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*'''November 2012: GloboSol annual report: Switzerland/Germany - Partner-meeting “Skillshare”''' - As a “première”, some of our closest friends and solar colleagues from various foreign countries were invited to visit [[Globosol]] with [[Michael Götz]]. In the course of a manifold study and sight-seeing program, they also became acquainted with parts of [[Switzerland]] and southern [[Germany]]. Unfortunately only two guests were able to participate: [[Lorena Harp]] from Oaxaca, [[Mexico]], the co-organizer of the project “Food-stalls in Mexico”, and [[Sourakatou Ouro-Bangna]], head of the solar center “Solasol” in Sokode,[[Togo]]. It was a stimulating event that nevertheless raised questions and unfortunately required significant administrative expense. |
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[[File:Jeunes_Volontaires_Pourl_'Environnement1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Operation Amis du Soleil participants start the solar cooker construction process by adhering reflective foil to cardboard]] |
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[[File:Jeunes_Volontaires_Pourl_'Environnement1.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Operation Amis du Soleil participants start the solar cooker construction process by adhering reflective foil to cardboard]] |
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*'''March 2009:''' [[Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement]] (JVE) taught over 150 people how to build and use solar cookers over the past year and a half. During a general assembly meeting in late 2007, about 100 participants from several cities in [[Togo]], Cote d’Ivoire and [[Benin]] gathered for a workshop in Notse. Over the course of three days, participants learned basic solar cooking concepts and skills, participated in the construction of their own solar [[CooKit]]s, gained valuable management skills, and heard testimony from JVE project participants about the many benefits solar cookers have brought to their lives. One such testimony came from a women involved with a JVE solar water pasteurization project in the Vo prefecture. She discussed how solar cooker use has reduced the number of pulmonary illnesses in the community, and how pasteurization skills have similarly lessened the incidence of waterborne disease. She also spoke vividly about how her status in the community had changed because of her involvement with the project, so much so that the chief now refers all issues of natural resources management to her — an example, she says, of how the role of women in the community is elevated with empowering projects like these. In August, 2008, JVE organized Operation Amis du Soleil, a five-day gathering in the Casablanca quarter of Lome that brought together dozens of people, mostly youth, to learn about solar cooker use and to build solar cookers for JVE’s solar water pasteurization project in Vo prefecture. (Eleven women’s groups in Vo produce solar cookers, but they are not always able to keep up with demand). |
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*'''March 2009:''' [[Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement]] (JVE) taught over 150 people how to build and use solar cookers over the past year and a half. During a general assembly meeting in late 2007, about 100 participants from several cities in [[Togo]], Cote d’Ivoire and [[Benin]] gathered for a workshop in Notse. Over the course of three days, participants learned basic solar cooking concepts and skills, participated in the construction of their own solar [[CooKit]]s, gained valuable management skills, and heard testimony from JVE project participants about the many benefits solar cookers have brought to their lives. One such testimony came from a women involved with a JVE solar water pasteurization project in the Vo prefecture. She discussed how solar cooker use has reduced the number of pulmonary illnesses in the community, and how pasteurization skills have similarly lessened the incidence of waterborne disease. She also spoke vividly about how her status in the community had changed because of her involvement with the project, so much so that the chief now refers all issues of natural resources management to her — an example, she says, of how the role of women in the community is elevated with empowering projects like these. In August, 2008, JVE organized Operation Amis du Soleil, a five-day gathering in the Casablanca quarter of Lome that brought together dozens of people, mostly youth, to learn about solar cooker use and to build solar cookers for JVE’s solar water pasteurization project in Vo prefecture. (Eleven women’s groups in Vo produce solar cookers, but they are not always able to keep up with demand). |
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