Help in bringing solar cookers to people in need!

Please help me in providing women and children access to solar cookers to keep them safe and healthy while lowering greenhouse emissions and deforestation by donating to my fundraiser for SCI today!

WHY SOLAR COOKING? 

1 in 3 people in the world cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fueled by kerosene, coal, and garbage, resulting in negative health and environmental consequences. 

Solar cookers offer a sustainable and powerful solution to those challenges because they have no emissions and use free solar energy for cooking and water pasteurization. 

Solar cooking allows people to breathe cleaner air and drink safer water; prevents greenhouse emissions; and protects biodiversity, habitats, and forests. 

One solar cooker can provide 15+ years of benefits. Estimates show over 30 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are prevented over the lifetime of the current solar cookers identified around the globe. These emissions are equal to not driving over 76 billion miles.  

Countries can save millions, even billions of dollars annually, by avoiding health and environmental costs by incorporating solar cooking.  If everyone currently cooking using polluting fuels used solar cookers ¼ of the time, over 1 trillion dollars could be saved annually across the globe.

SCI focused efforts in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, beginning in early 2019, to impact over 1,900 refugees and avoid over 5,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide with solar cooking by 2022.  Local female solar cooking champions conduct training with ongoing monitoring and evaluation, along with follow-up and support to ensure the successful use of solar cookers.