Morocco

==Events==
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*March 2023: Empowering women with help from the SunPower Co-op: - Latifa Seroukh is a Moroccan national who works at the Abdelmalek Essaâdi Unversity in Tétouan, Morocco. She is also vice-president and co-founder of the SunPower Co-op also in Tétouan. Their focus is to use solar cooking and solar food processing as a way to empower women in the area. The women-managed co-op creates job opportunities, teaches solar cooker construction, solar cooking and drying techniques, and how to recognize and establish related businesses. 
::400px|thumb|none|Latifa Seroukh presented at the Solar Cookers International-hosted Commission of the Status of Women webinar that took place on 8 March 2023 (Her presentation begins at 51:00)
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*October 2017: Greenpeace held trainings to better prepare participants to be more effective solar cooking trainers. Workshops were held in Casablanca and Air Faska, Morocco in July 2017. More photos of the training in Casablanca.
*March 2016: The Huffington Post reports on the world's largest solar power plant being activated in Morocco
*November 2015: In an interview published in L'Usine Nouvelle, Solarama Energy & Services reports selling 280 solar cookers in Morocco between 2013 and 2015. Read more...
*October 2014: LA CUISSON SOLAIRE - UNE ALTERNATIVE - ÉCOLOGIQUE ET PUISSANTE - A L'UTILISATION DU BOIS ET DU GAZ - La Tribune
*September 2013: The new Marrakesh firm P-Solar industry designs and mass-produces parabolic solar cookers. The founder’s goal is to help preserve Morocco’s forests, which are vanishing at a rate of 30,000 hectares per year. His second goal is to reduce the cost of fuel for Moroccan families who buy LPG, since the Moroccan government has recently announced that it will end subsidies for cooking gas. P-Solar’s website notes that Moroccan women and girls in the High Atlas spend half their days gathering wood instead of attending school or tending to household chores.
*May 2013: A new company (P-Solar industry) was founded in Marrakech in order to design and mass-produce parabolic solar ovens. The creator had a purpose to allow the dissemination of this type of cooking to preserve Moroccan forest loses 30,000 hectares per year and reduce the weight of gas prices that do not stop climbing. The recent statement concerning the Moroccan government stop any subsidy in the price of gas will definitely boost this technology. This type of cooking is the latest in Morocco and Africa who really need it. P-Solar industry is the name given to the company whose website is www.marocsolaire.com, a real e-marketing strategy the aim is to enable wide dissemination of this type of cooking.
*April 2013: Cooking demonstration with the ladies of the Association pour le Development Rural in Agdez, Morocco with SOLAR KITCHEN, Austria
*March 2013: In collaboration with eg-solar, Germany, and SOuLAR KITCHEN, Austria, Mohamed Gourari in Skoura, Ouarzazate, Morocco did build his first solar cooker and is now able to produce and sell the solar cooker SK 14.For more information write to schmihe@gmx.at
*May 2012: The Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) has provided 150 solar parabolic cookers to the people of Ouffi Ait – a small, sunny village southeast of Marrakech in Morocco. The introduction of these solar cookers has reduced the amount of time girls must spend collecting firewood, giving them more time to attend school. Working with the Foreign Association XXI and ADMR from Morocco, AECI targeted women as protagonists of a cleaner, more equitable future in their Morocco Solar Cookers for Rural Families project. Read more...
*August 2008: Operation Friends of the Sun. NGO Youth Volunteers for Environment and Development Committee of the District of Casablanca have the honor to invite you to the opening ceremony and closing of an activity called, 'Operation Friends of the Sun' (OAS) to be instead of Monday 04 August 2008 to Friday 08 August 2008 in the district of Casablanca, on the public plaza in front of the bar MIKOUNOUNOU. The activity will be in effect the production of solar cookers (boxes) by youths in the area who will be trained for the occasion. Indeed, three years ago that JVE runs in collaboration with NNV, a Norwegian NGO, a draft pasteurization solar water in the prefecture Vo. Objectives: To provide drinking water, strengthen the capacity of women and fight against desertification. The impact and enthusiasm generated by this project require constant availability of solar cookers, what the 11 women's groups with whom we work, unable to satisfy. This justifies the raison d'etre of this operation intended to educate more people on the need to switch to solar and behave respectful of our fragile environment. Thus, there was success for 5 days of training, production, demonstrations, solar dishes, football games etc… according to the attached program. Having no doubt about your support for everything related to sustainable development, and hoping to count on your presence, please accept Sir / Madam, the assurances of our highest consideration.
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The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Morocco became interested in solar cooking
through involvement of an employee, Touria Dafrallah, the recipient of an award for one
year of study in the United States under the auspices of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
Program. She studied at Cornell during that year, and came to know of solar cooking.
During a practicum period spent in Washington, D.C., Touria spent a share of her time 
working with Solar Household Energy, Inc., becoming a proficient cook and conferring
with SHE personnel on establishing a project in Morocco.
Upon her return to Morocco, Touria began to lay the groundwork for a project.
Experienced project staffs associated with the French, NGO Solar Inti, were made available to work with her in planning and piloting the project. The device chosen was the ULOG type box cooker, used in Solar Into projects in other countries. It could be made in Morocco. 
Morocco was also interested in learning more about, and perhaps acquiring a large solar cooker called the Villager, a product of Sun Ovens International and Rotary International.
Later reports of progress in Morocco indicated that work continued on the
project but progress was slow. 
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*Discussion of northern Africa's suitability for solar cooking
*Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
==Resources==
===Reports===
===Articles in the media===
*July 2017: According to the Morocco World News, the international environmental advocacy group Greenpeace said that an initiative aims to create a “network of solar ambassadors” to catalyze “the deployment of decentralized solar energy in the kingdom to complement macro scale energy development.” Read more about the projects: Greenpeace Launches Solar Energy Education Project in Morocco - Morocco World News
*March 2016: The World's Largest Solar Power Plant Is Now Active In The Sahara - The Huffington Post
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*June 2015: 
*October 2014: LA CUISSON SOLAIRE - UNE ALTERNATIVE - ÉCOLOGIQUE ET PUISSANTE - A L'UTILISATION DU BOIS ET DU GAZ - La Tribune
*May 2012: Why Solar Cookers Should Spread Like Satellites in Morocco - Green Prophet
===Audio and video===
*March 2023: Latifa Seroukh, SunPower Co-op co-founder, addresses COP27 at Solar Cookers International hosted webinar (Latifa Seroukh presentation begins at 51:00)
::400px|thumb|none|Participation in the Solar Cookers International-hosted Commission of the Status of Women webinar that took place on 8 March 2023 (Latifa Seroukh presentation begins at 51:00)
*October 2014:
::thumb|none|400px|Le “ Morocco Solar Festival ” est un événement international dédié au Soleil et au développement durable des zones désertiques. Solar strator, Masen, l'opéra de Paris, Sahmaoui....
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===External links===
*Questions courantes sur les fours solaires
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