Haines Solar Cookers

Haines Solar Cookers operates from Del Mar, , USA, and was founded by Roger Haines. The company represents the culmination of his design development of solar panel cookers and cooking accessories. Roger has been a long time advocate of solar cooking, having made many trips to East Africa, working to promote the solar cooker market and provide better cooking solutions for those living in refugee camps. 
Roger is a member of the Solar Cookers International Association. He is also on the Board of San Diego based Alliance for African Assistance, and is Rotary Foundation Chair of the San Diego Rotary Club 33. Roger has been designing and making solar cookers since 2013. 
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*February 2025: Haines Solar Cookers LLC Selected to Provide 6,000 Solar Cookers to Darfur Refugees - The new Haines Pop Open Solar Cookers, which harness concentrated sunlight to cook food, will be distributed in Touloum Refugee Camp in Eastern Chad. Conditions there are harsh, and resources are scarce. The project is managed by FairClimateFund, a Netherlands-based social enterprise with extensive experience in implementing clean cooking programs that generate carbon credits. “We are proud to be part of this important initiative that not only provides refugees with a cleaner, healthier way to cook but also supports broader climate goals,” said Roger Haines, President and Founder of Haines Solar Cookers. “We hope to expand this project to other camps in Chad with FairClimateFund. The project will make a tangible impact in the lives of refugees while also contributing to climate mitigation through the generation of carbon credits.” 
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*September: Haines International Program - Based in California and founded in 2012, Haines Solar Cookers, LLC is a leading manufacturer of solar cookers. Over 5,000 Haines Solar Cookers have been sold in the United States. Approximately 2,500 have been provided internationally in Haiti, Mexico, Kenya, and Uganda to improve the environment, as well as lives of women and children, text provided by Haines Solar Cookers Read more...
*May 2023: Recognition and recommendations received for the Haines 2.0 panel cooker
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*February 2023: A smaller Haines - Roger Haines reports that Lorena Harp has created a scaled down version the Haines 1 panel cooker. According to Lorena, it cooks well, and fits more compact size requirements.
*February 2023: A multi-day solar cooker construction and use workshop took place in Eldoret Kenya. It became a reality through the efforts of a number of supporting individuals, non-profit organizations, and manufacturers. The solar panel cooker materials were provided by Haines Solar Cookers, with general funding by the Rotary Club of San Diego. Solar Education Project founders, Mary Buchenic and Jennifer Gasser wrote workbooks and translated them into Swahili for the participants. Additional project support was provided by Solar Household Energy. The workshop leader was Grace Chepkemei, who was assisted by local solar cooking advocate Camily Wedende. Participants were excited about the training, and surprised at the variety and excellent taste of the foods they prepared. 
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*April 2022: Updated Haines 1 - Roger Haines reports there will be an updated version of the Pop Open Haines 1 solar cooker by June 2022, which, with a larger reflector, is 35% more powerful and more corrosion resistant. The Haines 1 is a more affordable option to the Haines 2.0. 
*January 2022: Focus groups in refugee camps - Roger Haines reports that Haines Solar Cookers has been organizing three simultaneous “focus group” projects for 10 women in each of three refugee camps:  Dadaab and Kakuma (in Kenya) and Palabek Refugee Community (in Uganda). Materials to make about 250 Haines 2.0 “pop-open” cookers are already in each Camp. These are the original “wrinkly” MPET rolls that I imported into Kenya in 2014, so we must tape three pieces together to make the new one-piece “pop-open” design.  We will not order new one-piece reflectors until we obtain reports from the focus groups. The Alliance for African Assistance-Kenya has identified and will soon hire the lead trainers, who are themselves refugees well-connected with each Camp.  We will start small and make sure we have the right design and the right partners in each camp before scaling up.
*January 2020: Haines 2.0 Solar Cookers for Refugees in Uganda - Thirty-three women in the Palabek Refugee Community in northern Uganda received Haines 2.0 Solar Cookers and were extensively trained in how to use them. The project was organized by the Gulu-based Alliance for African Assistance in partnership with the African Refugee Education Project, the San Diego Rotary Club, Solar Household Energy and the Solar Connect Association of Uganda. The goal is to establish 33 women in the community as long-term solar cooking enthusiasts. Three of the women will be selected by their peers as to conduct periodic surveys to evaluate the long term use and adoption of the cookers, and the possibility of establishing a sustainable solar cooker enterprise in the community. Main article: Refugee camps
*April 2019: (Mexico) - Solar Household Energy
==Audio and video==
*July 2024: 
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*August 2019: 
::thumb|none|400 px|Bibiana Hernández, de la comunidad de San Miguel del Valle, Tlacolula, Oax, tiene 2 años usando su horno solar Haines y promoviéndolo en sus comunidades como parte del proyecto piloto impulsado por Solar Household Energy, Inc. En este tutorial, ella nos explica como se arma un horno solar para poder cocinar los alimentos con energía solar.
*June 2019: Roger Haines provides a review of various solar cooker types.
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==Reports==
*October 2024: 
* October 2024: Haines Pop Open Solar Cooker PEP test results
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*March 2023: 
* June 2022: - Solar Education Project, Solar Household Energy, Haines Solar Cookers
* June 2022: - Excel pdf image with backup data for the 11-month evaluation, showing that 100% of the Pop Opens were still in use after 11 months, and they were used an average of 4.6 times per week.
* April 2015: 
==See Also==
*Haines 1
*Haines 2.0 Solar Cooker
*Haines Pop Open Solar Cooker
*Roger Haines
==External links==
*https://www.hainessolarcookers.com
*https://www.facebook.com/hainessolarcookers/
*Haines Solar Cooker Users group on Facebook
==Contact==
Haines Solar Cookers
Del Mar, 
USA
Tel. +1 858 736-5505 
Email: Contact page 
Web: https://www.hainessolarcookers.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hainessolarcookers
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