Helping Others: Sun ovens to Darfur
Apr 17th, 2007 by Jill
Path to Freedom reminds us that 10% of the sales from their store go to helping others, including displaced people in Darfur:
Don’t forget that 10&% of all sales from the Peddler’s Wagon go toward helping other’s in the third world, one such project that we support is sending sun ovens to the Darfur refugees. (link — bottom of the page)
This strikes me as a pretty creative idea, especially since, from what I understand, one of the huge problems is that people who leave the refugee camps to get firewood are often raped or killed, so eliminating the need for firewood sounds like it could help.
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Sadly, what you wrote in that last paragraph appears to be true from everything I’ve read, so anything that can help eliminate the need for firewood is a great thing.
A very clever and dedicated scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab studied this problem and designed a thermally efficient stove that uses less wood. Apparently solar ovens don’t fit the preferences of how people in Darfur cook. The Darfur stove doesn’t eliminate the use of wood, but at least it reduces the use of wood and hence exposures created.
http://darfurstoves.lbl.gov