by Camille McCarthy, January 2006 In November 2006, I traveled to El Salvador to launch the El Salvador HotPot solar cooking program. I worked with the Feed the Children El Salvador (FTC) and Asociación Comunitaria Unida por el… Read More

by Richard Stolz More than one thousand (1,048, to be specific) HotPot solar ovens arrived this summer in Bamako, Mali, West Africa . The 40-foot HotPot-laden shipping container represents SHE Inc.’s first major delivery of HotPots to Africa…. Read More

by Louise Meyer, July 2006 ABSTRACT Solar Household Energy Inc., an NGO based in Washington, D.C., has received financial support from the World Bank and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to disseminate solar cooking technology in rural Mexico…. Read More

by Melanie Szulczewski, Ph. D., Solar Household Energy, June 2006 A review of evaluations of solar cooking projects using box and panel solar ovens in Bolivia, Ethiopia, and Kenya provides conclusive evidence of successful technology transfer and cultural… Read More

by Christine Danton, Solar Household Energy, Inc. In November 2004, I traveled to Mali for three weeks to hold a solar cooking training and to continue negotiations with our business partner in Mali for their first shipment of… Read More

by Rachel Bingham, August 2004 EVALUATION REPORT SOLAR OVEN EXPOSITION, KAEDI, MAURITANIA AUGUST 10, 2004 I BACKGROUND This project was a coordination of efforts between RPCV Shelagh Bocoum, Solar Household Energy, Inc (SHE), Mr. Abdoulaye Touré and Peace… Read More

by Christine Danton, Solar Household Energy, Inc., August 2004 During my recent trip to Mali, I awoke at 4:30 AM one morning. The roosters were crowing, the sun was announcing its arrival and the call to prayer cut… Read More

by Louise Meyer, Solar Household Energy, Inc., DAAD Letter, Sping 2004 Indeed, the general topic of solar energy has already been the subject of the DAAD Letter, which published a cover story, "Projekt Sonne", in March 1999. That… Read More

by Mary Simonson, Nov. 2003 Nancy Bailey and myself were U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers in Lesotho, Southern Africa from May 2001 — July 2003. Lesotho is a high-altitude country where winters can be bitterly cold and deforestation and… Read More

by Martin Almada, Craft News, Winter 2001 During the last few years, the socioeconomic situation of the rural communities in Paraguay, South America has steadily declined. Of Paraguay’s total population of five million, only 5% fit into the… Read More