My friend Patricia Deer sent this today. Last year she organized a shipment of these sun ovens to Angola. This year the goal is bigger.
NEEDED: Used Video and Digital Camera Equipment for Angolan Oven Project
These cameras will be used to document the development of a sun oven project in Quito, Angola (one of the main cites in central Angola and one of the cities that was under a nine month siege during the decades long civil war.)
Recently the city asked for an industrial size sun oven to develop a bakery project for child soldiers and other displaced people. People in Evanston and Chicago raised $20,000 to buy the large oven and 60 small ovens for individual families. This was done by SHARE a small non-profit started by an Angolan student here.
Sun ovens can play a crucial role in developing countries. Without them, people are foraging for wood and destroying the forests in order to be able to cook. (Haiti, for example, has no trees left to burn.) When women cook over a wood burning fire they have their babies tied to their backs, and by some estimates the smoke inhaled is the equivalent to smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
The long-term goal of the project will be to raise $50,000 to build a manufacturing plant to produce sun ovens for all of south Africa.
CAN YOU HELP? For information or to buy a sun oven for a family call Guerra Freitas at SHARECircle Network. The great thing about this kind of giving is that it goes almost directly to real people and new capacity.