Peru

==Events==
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*December 2023: Tara Edna Miller shares a photo of fresh pink trout from Lake Titicaca baking in an ULOG style solar box oven on the Capachica Peninsula in Puna, Peru. The oven was constructed by a skilled Moreno carpenter who lives in the heights of Puno. The reflectors are made from printer plates.
*September 2015: Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil (BISS), in association with Engineers without Borders, has started a new project called Plug in Peru (PIP), implemented by three engineering students from École Centrale de Nantes. Photovoltaic (PV) panels were added to the solar stoves, which were distributed in the Andes. While the solar cooker is in position for cooking, these PV panels will store energy to charge cell phones, radios, and batteries – a need that was identified in the local villages. The students’ project was based in La Paz, on the premises of Inti Illimani (BISS’ partner in Bolivia), which enabled the team to obtain the necessary materials and build the kits before the workshop which was organized in the community of Ch'uxña Quta, 250 km north of La Paz. Despite some initial technical difficulties, this project raised interest from the local population, and the team left one of the kits behind so that the villagers could use it as needed. Follow-up visits will be made by local teams to evaluate the use of the kits.
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*February 2012: At the invitation of the Munincipalidad de El Collao, Ilave, Tara Miller and Sam Brown gave a solar cooking demonstration to a gathering of over 200 government officials from the area. They used a ULOG cooker newly made in Puno and an older four reflector panel cooker we had made in 1997 on Taquile Island. We cooked yams in both cookers in partly cloudy conditions. Tara mentioned, there were 300 printed copies of our cooker building instructions available, and they ran out. Read more...
*August 2010: Project News: Bolivia - Peru Solar Cook Stoves - actioncarbone.org
*May 2010: Nineteen Brigham Young University student engineers traveled to Peru’s fabled high mountain Lake Titicaca to deliver a special solar oven as part of their course on sustainable engineering projects that help improve local people’s standard of living. The students worked with the people of the Uros Islands. The islands are constructed from floating beds of reeds and soil about nine feet thick, anchored to the lakebed with boulders. Power is difficult to come by, so the Uros cook fish, fowl and homegrown potatoes with expensive propane stoves or time-consuming, reed-fed fires. Local residents were intrigued by the new approach to cooking. More Information...
*November 2008: In late 2006, Acciónatura, a Spanish NGO, approached Solar Household Energy (SHE) about implementing a project in Peru with their Peruvian partner NGO. While they had the funding to buy the HotPots and implement the project, they did not have the solar cooking technical expertise. Therefore, they requested in-country technical solar cooking support from Solar Household Energy (SHE). SHE signed a Terms of Reference with Acciónatura to work in a consortium with Asociación de Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN) to conduct a solar cooking project. The solar cooking trainings were launched in mid-April outside of Lucre, Peru (about 30 kilometers from Cuzco). During five separate trainings, 100 women learned solar cooking techniques. Traditional Peruvian dishes, estofada (chicken and potato stew), rice, and baked peaches were cooked. All the women were extremely impressed with the ability of the HotPot to cook traditional food. In the coming months, the women will attend follow-up meetings where they will share solar cooking experiences. Additionally, the women will participate in a work-exchange program. In the work-exchange program, the women will plant trees in a reforestation project, conduct solar cooking demonstrations in their communities, and conduct solar cooking demonstrations at a regional food fair.
==Resources==
===Reports===
*May 2019:  - Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil
* Case Study of Solar Stoves Made and Used in the Peruvian Andes For the Peru Children’s Trust.
===Articles in the media===
*January 2018: Engineering hope: Students, faculty developing life-saving indoor air quality solutions in Peru - Seminole State College
*February 2015: 
===Audio and video===
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Two staff members of the Centro de la Familia Anna Dengel in Arequipa, Peru undertook a pilot project early in the 1990s. The project included both a pilot and an implementation stage. In the pilot part, they considered a range of cooker designs, and settled on a box cooker of cardboard. After that decision, an implementation process involved the construction of 30 cookers by persons who were also trained in cooking methods. All 30 persons were able to complete the construction process successfully.
Next, 24 people were trained in use of the cooker; 80% or 19 family cooks successfully used the boxes they had made. With that project behind them, the two promoters began to seek additional resources to expand their efforts. To the best of our knowledge, they were not successful in locating funds for a larger effort.
In 2002, each was however working separately to promote cookers. Sister Patricia Gootee continued to make and sell a small number of cookers, and Geovana Rivera also taught solar cooking, and designed and built new types of cookers.
A Center of Renewable Energy was created in Lima. Its work included design, research, and construction of several models of solar cookers. In addition, Jorge Armando Choque Chacolla, of the Centro Poblado Menor in Tacna, an Andean area, worked to spread solar cooking in mountainous areas.
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*Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
==External links==
*NewDec23}} Amigos de Taquile Blog 
* Preguntas Frecuentes de la Cocción Solar
* Peru Children’s Trust page on solar cooking (También en español)
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