Dear Friends, Hello and thanks so your great follow-up note, Pam, on the Sun Oven (a connection to Rotary International). I thought I would bring an ICTs connection to this mail by sending a list of some resources I gathered through a handy Google search, and will also say that the oven project and so much more would be difficult if not impossible without these ICTs connections! Also, please see a listing for Enersol, a US-based company working in Central America and the Caribbean, on a project they call "Edusol", using solar-powered computers for educational purposes.
Rotary chapters sponsor the installation of Sun Ovens, which come in several sizes. I sent a mail the other day in response to your query abt. their availability for Nigeria, and received a mail from Paul Munson of Temple Solar, who has been working with Rotary on this project (and Sun Ovens International) for 3-4 years. At the SOI site you can see the types of ovens which have been installed, and the purposes for which they are being used, from feeding families to running a commercial bakery. Paul said that getting an oven to your communities in Nigeria would be no problem, Pam, if you have the support of a local Rotary chapter, which would submit the project to Rotary International. I think fundraising then begins for the expenses, so that it's "free" to the community seeking it (in the developing world). I'll be happy to hook you up with him (via email!) soon, and--to answer your question about the relationship to HIV/AIDS--see the quote below. And will say that we in Kenya will be using ours (Sun Ovens for Kenya have gotten hung up by duties in port, a situation which now needs govt attention...hope you won't have that problem!) for an HIV/AIDS-related purpose too, as so many of our community members are affected by the pandemic in some way, and need not only steady income-generation but better nutrition to cope with the problems associated with it. Thanks much and will write a personal note in response to yours in a few days! With all best wishes and in solar spirit, Janet http://solarcooking.org (Solar Cookers International) http://www.solarconference.net (Spain 2006 international solar conference) http://www.sunoven.com (Sun Ovens International) http://www.rotarysolarovens.org (the Rotary project specifically) http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/Solar-Cookers.cfm (explains different kind of solar cookers) http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/microenterprise/display /6 (great info on use of the sun and technologies related to solar power) http://www.enersol.org/ and http://www.enersol.org/edusol.html (solar-powered computers, 16 projects in Latin America) An excerpt from a letter by Paul Munson of Temple Solar, who works with Rotary on their Sun Oven project: "Two weeks ago I had the privilege of showing the Sun Ovens to Nelson Mandela. We received an innovation award from the World Bank to start a solar bakery that will be providing employment for HIV positive women in the eastern cape of South Africa." _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
