Burundi

==Events==
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*December 2024: Solar cooker manufacturing and training - Vet to Stop Deforestation (VTSDF) is a project created by a consortium of foundations committed to stopping deforestation in Burundi. The overall objective of the V2SDF project is to participate in the improvement of vocational training in solar cooker manufacturing, so that it serves as a useful tool for sustainable development, and responds to the country's strategic environmental objectives and is well adapted to the labor market. One of the biggest environmental problems Burundi has to face is deforestation, which is largely due to the use of firewood or charcoal as practically the only possible fuel for cooking. 
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V2SDF traing group, 12-27-24.png|V2SDF participants receive their training certification
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*December 2024: Stopping deforestation - Elena Castrillo participated in an event organized by the European Commission. She had been invited to present the project, To Stop Deforestation, to the Erasmus+ National Agencies. She explained how solar cooking can help relieve the pressure on cutting down the forests for cooking fuel. The Erasmus project is coordinated by the IES La Merced, and is focused on improving FP in Burundi.
*July 2024: Bringing solar cooking to vocational schools - An exhibition for the use solar radiation took place at the University of Technology in Gitega, Burundi on 25/7/2024. This technology was brought by an organization in the country of Spain called #Vet_to_stop deforestation. Learning these skills will be taught at three schools, the Rusi Vocational School, Gitaba Vocational School, and Christ Roi Vocational School in Gitega Province. Dieudonné Rukundo Nimubona, a Burundian who lives in Spain and is part of a group that came from that country to show and teach this technique, says that the reason they bring solar cooking technology is that there is no wood left in Burundi. Even now, the avocado and mango trees are being cut down to produce charcoal and firewood.
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*April 2017: Solar bakery employs eight people and produces 500 loaves a day - With funding from the Energy and Environment Partnership of Southern & East Africa (EEP S&EA) R20 and its local partner implemented a solar bakery project in Gitega. The results to date are: 1) A solar bakery with the capacity to produce up to 500 loaves of bread per day; 2) Employment for 8 local women A bakery business plan; and 3) A draft Integrated Climate Plan for Gitega City. More information... 
*March 2014: R20 initiates second phase of solar bakery project in Burundi - The second phase of the project began with a stakeholder consultation workshop where 32 participants (women bakers, local officials) gathered to discuss the potential benefits of having a solar bakery as well as concerns they may have. The workshop was a success, and the women bakers expressed their gratefulness to R20 and CIRID for helping to start this project that will reduce the amount of smoke they inhale as much less wood will be needed to bake. The solar bakery project will provide a solar-powered oven to a small bakery in Gitega, Burundi, that employs women that have been marginalized by their communities. More information... Update: The deadline has been extended to submit proposals from tenders interested in providing three institutional solar cookers. Submittal information provided in January update.
*January 2014: International aid organization seeks solar cookers for bakery in Burundi - The global relief organization R20-Regions of Climate Action has organized a solar bakery project in Rutegama, Burundi. Currently the bakery, in operation since 2006, has relied on wood-fired ovens, with the wood needing to be gathered by the women working at the bakery. They are soliciting proposals from tenders interested in providing three institutional solar ovens required to convert the bakery to solar. The ovens must be limited to three meters(a little under 10 ft.) in height, and if carried, weighing no more than 10 kg (22 lbs.). Unfortunately proposals need to be submitted by January 31, 2014. Interested parties will find more information here: . The scale of the project may be rather small, but the funding and implementation is coming from world leaders in the field of economic and environmental relief.
*July, 2009: Ntibagendeza Anastasie, reports: The Free Methodist Church opened the Solar Cooking Ministry office. An action plan was created to organize three seminars. At the seminars, seventeen various foods were cooked, as well as, water purification demonstrated. Other seminars are to be held in Bujumbura, the Muyebe district, and the Muyange district.
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Burundi has 6 months of abundant rain. Firewood resources are in the process of being depleted. (Source: Juan Urrutia Sanz, 2010-Feb-15)
See also
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*Discussion of eastern Africa's suitability for solar cooking
*Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
==Resources==
===Reports===
===Articles in the media===
*January 2015: R20 and local partner, CIRID, host inauguration ceremony of solar bakery project in Gitega, Burundi
===Audio and Video===
*January 2015:
::thumb|none|400 px|R20's East Africa Program Manager, Jini Sebakunzi, was at the inauguration ceremony for the new bakery enterprise in November, 2014. - Journal Télévisé Afrique (BURUNDI)
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