Solar cookers
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Solar cookers are devices that concentrate the rays of the sun to heat and cook food. Such devices can reduce the need for gathering firewood and other biomass for cooking needs, as well as reducing air pollutants, providing more time and security to the lives of women.
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- Solar lifeline saves Darfur women. 12 September 2007 by CNN, reported that "For the 2.5 million people who have fled the four-year conflict in war-torn Darfur, refugee camps in eastern Chad hold the promise of a safe haven....But, once there, it's the women refugees' role to find wood and water. To do this, they have to leave the camps and walk for many miles," making them "vulnerable to beatings, rape and murder at the hands of roving Janjaweed patrols and local villagers, with whom they compete for scanty resources."
- To improve this situation, the nonprofit organization Jewish World Watch is working with Dutch organization KoZon to promote solar cooking, which has been adopted for cooking lunch and dinner by refugees, initially at the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad. The women's time has also been freed up for them to devote to other enterprises.
- The project's organizers hope to influence the situation at other refugee camps; one was quoted as saying, "I would hope that our little project was a catalyst for the UN High Commission for Refugees to wean the relief organizations off wood and onto solar cooking."
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