The Solar Cooking Archive

Solar Cookers International (SCI) has been sponsoring extensive solar cooking work in Kenyan refugee camps. More than 15,000 families have attended workshops and returned home with their own solar cooker. Thanks to a new cooker design, it costs only US$10 to supply each of these families with a solar cooker, a black pot, a supply of trial food, and instruction on how to use their new cooker. Follow-up visits have revealed a high level of use. Families report now that they no longer have to trade their scarce rations for firewood, and thus have more food left to eat.

This page pulls together all the photos and articles we have on these exciting developments:

• Final Kakuma evaluation: solar cookers filled a critical gap
• SCI's Kakuma project recipient of £7,500 as runner-up for the 2002 Ashden Awards
• Update March, 2002: Three Thousand More Families Solar Cook
• March, 2002: Kakuma project is runner-up for the prestigious Ashden Award for Renewable Energy
  
  You can listen to Margaret Owino discussing the project on the BBC program Network Africa.
   
• Solar Household Energy, Inc. is spreading this work to other countries including Turkey.
• Update April, 2001: Count on Solar Cooking
• Update December, 2000: Refugee Projects on Track
• Interaction recently published an article on SCI's work with solar cookers in refugee camps.
• Update August, 2000: Building on Strength
• Update April, 2000: Projects Clearly Valued
• Update December, 1999: East Africa Update
• Listen to "Letters from Kenya" where SCI trainers discuss the projects.
• Update April 2000: Projects Clearly Valued
• Update November 1999: Inside Kakuma
• Update August 1999: East Africa Coordinator Going Strong
• Update September 1997: Kakuma, Zimbabwe Project Update
• UNESCO Funds Solar Cooking Project in Zimbabwe
• An October '95 interview with the major Kakuma refugee camp trainers, Jay Campbell and Barbara Knudson
• An October '95 interview with Dr. Robert Metcalf on his return from trainings in Dadaab and other camps.
• Update for 1995
• Kakuma Refugee Solar Cooking Project--Report #1