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UN Report Lauds Refugee Solar Cooking Project in Kenya

Solar Cookers International (SCI) launched a new program in Kakuma, 
Kenya, in January '95, teaching solar cooking to refugees--families who 
often went without food because of shortages of cooking fuel. Recently a 
United Nations environmental expert visited Kakuma and reported to the UN 
High Commission on Refugees:

"More than any other project I have seen or read about, SCI has reached 
the heart of the problem of motivating refugees to change their fuelwood 
consumption behavior. The key...lies in the immediate, substantial and
quantifiable savings in fuelwood...They can count their savings 
immediately...(It means) more food on the refugees' plates, as they will 
need to sell less food to buy fuel."

The report called both SCI's planning and execution of the project 
"extremely impressive."

"Refugee participation is very high. Refugee women trainers have been 
supplied with the knowledge, skills, confidence and incentive to take 
responsibility for the propagation of this partial solution to the 
fuelwood
crisis."

The UN report estimates that solar cooking will reduce the felling of 
trees in the dry region around the refugee camp by about 40%.

-- 
Tom Sponheim, Solar Cookers International, Seattle, Washington USA
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