PROGRAMS

Solar Cookers International (SCI) conducts four major programs:

• International Program Development
• Education Resources
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Advocacy

International Program Development

In partnership with local agencies, SCI has enabled thousands of families in multiple countries to cook food and pasteurize water with simple solar cookers. To ensure long-term project viability and access to affordable cookers, SCI works to incorporate solar cookers into local economies through establishment of independent solar cooker businesses run mostly by women. [Read on ... or go straight to details: Sunny Solutions project (Kenya) | Safe Water project (Kenya) | Zimbabwe projects]

Education Resources

SCI compiles solar cooking and solar water pasteurization information, and shares that information with individuals and organizations worldwide through a number of resources. Access to this knowledge helps consumers and promoters shorten learning curves and avoid missteps in the spread of solar cooking and solar water pasteurization. [Read on ...]

Humanitarian Assistance

Refugees and other displaced people frequently lack access to sufficient cooking fuels and safe drinking water. In refugee camps, when fuel rations are depleted, women and children often must walk for miles — risking rape and other dangers — to collect firewood from ever-diminishing sources. This physically arduous activity limits opportunity for education, participation in civic life, and income-generating activities. To save fuel, refugee families sometimes sacrifice nutritious foods like beans, which require hours of cooking, for quicker-cooking, less nutritious foods. They may even trade some of their meager food rations in exchange for firewood from neighboring populations, further reducing nutrition.

Inexpensive, effective solar cookers can be life-saving tools in these situations, not only for cooking but also for pasteurization of drinking water. [Read on ... or go straight to details: Iridimi refugee camp (Chad) | Kakuma refugee camp (Kenya) | Aisha refugee camp (Ethiopia) | Dadaab refugee camp (Kenya)]

Advocacy

SCI works with other solar cooking promoters to build awareness and support for solar cooking and solar water pasteurization among policy makers in government, business and humanitarian agencies at local, regional, national and international levels. [Read on ...]

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