Malawi

==Events==
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*October 2015: - In June 2015, United Village Transformation, led by Claudia Sansone, adopted a rural village near Daeyang Luke Hospital in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. The United Village Transformation team opened a preschool and provided agriculture and medical resources to the village. They also distributed several CooKits. Claudia Sansone reports that the villagers were very enthusiastic about the solar cookers and were eager to begin using them.
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An unusual sponsor of solar cooking in Malawi has been the non-profit organization,
Peace Child International. One of its programs called Be the Change (BTC), challenged
young people to make a difference in their communities. In Malawi a portion of youth action
work focused on solar cooking. One young man proposed to his colleagues that they
make and sell solar cookers as a BTC project. With a very small budget, they did all
planning and implementation of the project. By 2001, the group had been able to provide
50 village families with solar cookers in 9 different villages. The group reached out
for support from organizations in Germany and Austria, and was also aided in
locating reflective materials by a Malawian business, Universal Industries. (Source: Solar Cooker Review, November 2001)
A quite different type program in Malawi was reported on at the [[Kimberly
meetings]] in South Africa in 2000. The country has excellent solar insolation possibilities, and severe deforestation in some areas. The Department of Energy Affairs has established a
Renewable Energy Program, which promoted a range of renewable devices, including solar cookers. Using box cookers sold through a micro-financing scheme, the project intended to establish distribution centers across the country. A private business, the Zako Solar Cookers Industry was the principal manufacturer of ovens, and nongovernmental
organizations were assisting in the distribution.
To begin, a national planning workshop was held. Various stakeholders came
together to divide up the tasks involved in presenting a series of demonstrations on
energy saving measures. Participatory principles were stressed and a choice of optional
renewable energy modes offered to people. The foci of the project included both arresting
environmental degradation and the reduction of poverty.
Information presented at Kimberly described the program at a very early stage.
Follow up to ascertain results of the project had not yet been accomplished. This project,
started by governmental initiative, was an important development in Africa, where the bulk
of solar cooking work has been done through non-governmental organizations, many
from outside the continent (Kimberly, p. 67).
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Solar Cookers International has rated Malawi as the #20 country in the world in terms of solar cooking potential (See: ). The estimated number of people in Malawi
with fuel scarcity but ample sun in 2020 is 2,700,000.
Malawi has a renewable energy component in its school curriculum.
See also
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*Discussion of southern Africa's suitability for solar cooking
*Solar cooker dissemination and cultural variables
==Resources==
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===Reports===
===Articles in the media===
*September 2016: Poverty, Drought and Felled Trees Imperil Malawi Water Supply - New York Times
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