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"I'm doing still the same thing for the last five years, showing refugee women from Darfur in Tchad how to cook solar because there is no wood in the desert ecology (17* North), and teach them how to help themselves to continue. Have the immense benefit of a super-committed team of 12 tchadian women and men, organised in an NGO called TchadSolaire, and the reward of the smiles of ten of thousands of refugee women when they do no longer have to leave the security of the camps to search for wood, have not to fight for a scarce bit of energy, stay clean and beautiful because there's no smoke, do no longer cough and have no running noses, do no longer have children that burn themselves on a fire, have time free to do and sell handiwork to get powder milk and tea and sugar, etc etc. We now have

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  • "I'm doing still the same thing for the last five years, showing refugee women from Darfur in Tchad how to cook solar because there is no wood in the desert ecology (17* North), and teach them how to help themselves to continue. Have the immense benefit of a super-committed team of 12 tchadian women and men, organised in an NGO called TchadSolaire, and the reward of the smiles of ten of thousands of refugee women when they do no longer have to leave the security of the camps to search for wood, have not to fight for a scarce bit of energy, stay clean and beautiful because there's no smoke, do no longer cough and have no running noses, do no longer have children that burn themselves on a fire, have time free to do and sell handiwork to get powder milk and tea and sugar, etc etc. We now have
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  • "I'm doing still the same thing for the last five years, showing refugee women from Darfur in Tchad how to cook solar because there is no wood in the desert ecology (17* North), and teach them how to help themselves to continue. Have the immense benefit of a super-committed team of 12 tchadian women and men, organised in an NGO called TchadSolaire, and the reward of the smiles of ten of thousands of refugee women when they do no longer have to leave the security of the camps to search for wood, have not to fight for a scarce bit of energy, stay clean and beautiful because there's no smoke, do no longer cough and have no running noses, do no longer have children that burn themselves on a fire, have time free to do and sell handiwork to get powder milk and tea and sugar, etc etc. We now have completed work in three camps, total of 70,000 refugees, plus the surrounding villages. But still 170,000 refugees to go. And we do other things, like recuperating shower water to grow within-household mini-plots of vegetables (a thing I started because I believed in it, but that gave results way beyond my imagination), and showing local blacksmiths how to make fuel efficient stoves from old paint tins and bits of metal scavenged off the abandonned tanks of the civil war in the nineties. The other point is to see how unequal things are in this world. This whole event covering about 440,000 person years, was done for about EUR 1.300,000, or way less than one Euro cent per person per day. Compared to my own bill for cooking and vegetables, I'm ashamed." - Derk Rijks TchadSolaire asked a team of professional (among whom was Karyn Ellis) to evaluate our work and their report has been submitted. The report is still not released by the 'owners'. TchadSolaire, but the evaluation team said it was the biggest solar cooking project in the world. They also shared with us their thoughts on what we could do still better than we do it now. We use up to now exclusively the Cookit, as it was made by SCI, and we have added a means for protection against strong winds, as they occur in the area we work.
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