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We provide hardware and training to create sustainable jobs. We do it for our humanitarian clients to reinforce the local economy and livelihoods, to protect forests and improve the air quality.
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"When the sun rises and the sky is blue, I am sure it’s a good baking day. Our demand rose to 40kg a day and it’s impressive to see how well the Lytefire can handle this. It’s a joy for me and my bakers to bake tray after tray with solar."
"Receiving the Lytefire Solar oven has improved our lives. We are glad to testify the beauty in using solar energy because it’s cheap, user friendly and we no longer spend money on electricity or charcoal."
"Throughout the process, Lytefire proved itself as an innovative, resourceful, and thoughtful partner in Uganda. They offer an impressive product, and back it with in-depth knowledge and supportive staff. The Lytefire units have a triple impact of fighting climate change, enhancing food security, and supporting rural entrepreneurship. This technology has great potential to help the world. I am pleased to recommend Lytefire."
"Such a great example of sustainable innovation supporting local entrepreneurship, livelihoods, and school meals. Thank you for the inspiring initiative and for the important collaboration, Lytefire!"
"Joining the Lytefire project was a special moment and the best decision we have ever made because in most countries in Africa, especially in Uganda, we are educated to look for jobs as job seekers not as job creators but this bakery group with the Lytefire solar oven and training has given us an opportunity to create jobs."
"Plan International Uganda has been very satisfied with Lytefire’s pedagogy, methodology, organization skills and the solar concentrator Lytefire (solar oven) is very well adapted to Uganda’s context for small entrepreneurs. The Lytefire is empowering people and is a good solution for climate change mitigation among vulnerable populations."
"The second prize awarded to the solar bakery recognizes a project requiring very little capital, using updated techniques for baking bread through concentrated solar power. It meets the requirements of sustainability and accessibility, is highly replicable across all regions, and is a reliable way to stabilize and retain local populations, as the bakery serves as a hub of social activity."
"The Lytefire is the best for baking as it is environment friendly. For our group and myself during this training I have acquired advanced baking skills, good hygiene practices and entrepreneurial skills during the training. Using the Lytefire we will provide our community with good quality solar snacks or bites that are smoke free."
"We are able to save 500€ per month of buying bread that we now bake ourselves, and on top of that, the solar bakery brings an income of 260€ every month from additional sales"
"Solar artisanats will soon be recognized as an instrument of the world of the future. And not only in France"
"This product holds the solution to a group of global issues that we need to tackle now! "
"I think Lytefire is an almost indispensable tool for the future."
"In Sudan, we have been very satisfied with Lytefire’s innovative solar oven and the company’s professionalism, technical support, responsiveness, and clear scale-up plans. Plan International is looking forward to continuing the partnership and scale-up phase."
"The training was amazing and it helped me in many different ways; It has improved my entrepreneurial skills, baking skills and understanding solar energy and how the Lytefire works. It has helped my technical skills as I can operate, maintain and fix the machine."
“The Lytefire Oven is giving us 275 KSh (€2,70) per day, but with the charcoal oven it’s only 75 KSh (€0,70). That’s a big difference.”
"Joan’s bread is better than any other. So yummy! Her solar fire bakery is the best bakery in town."
"The Lytefire will help the community to bake bread with solar, instead of firewood and charcoal. I wish for it to create income within our community because the locals will save money for transport and will buy fresh local solar baked bread within walking distance!"
"Our beers are brewed thanks to the power of the sun! To reduce our carbon footprint and the use of resources required for our lifestyle and consumption, the sun is our best friend!"
"Under the initiative of ADSCAL and with the excellent service provided by Lytefire, four solar ovens have been installed for the bakeries and a pastry shop run by a women’s group in the village of Agnam, as part of the fight against deforestation in a region strongly affected by climate change. The energy and dedication shown by Mrs. Wissenz go far beyond the project itself and give us complete satisfaction and confidence in recommending this work."
"I’m so happy about the inauguration and presentation of the DIY oven… The important people were there: the mayor of São Domingos, the secretary of the Luxembourg embassy, and the director of the IEFP (the vocational training center), a project I managed to bring to life! We succeeded in reaching 220°C for two hours! But the weather is extremely cloudy at the moment, and since I bake sourdough bread, I’m not very flexible! My vision is that we can offer training around the oven, but also training for building it, so that the oven can spread throughout Cape Verde!"
“Here are two beautiful examples of what can be done here with the Lytefire DIY. I now need to find a serious user in Mexico who is ready to get involved. I also want to promote this technology. At the moment, I’m starting the construction of the building that will be used to prepare the ingredients before baking, and people from the community who want to learn will be able to come. I hope to discover more people passionate about this work. In addition, it will be a very visible example for interested artisans. A whole promotional program for the future!”
"It’s clear that Lytefire is a pioneer in what could be the starting point for a new economy, one that’s much more virtuous and cleaner!"
"I believe the Lytefire will help employment for youths, reduce usage of charcoal and emissions to the atmosphere because we will be using direct sun through concentrated solar energy!"
"We made popcorn as a snack this morning, (look how hot the cooker got at 9am). Then this afternoon the students used it to make a stir-fry using ingredients from the garden (collard greens, garlic, onions, eggplants, and herbs)."
"When the sun rises early morning and the sky is blue, I am sure it’s a good baking day with the sun rays. Since our bakery demand rose from the 10kg per day to not less than 40 kg a day it’s impressive to see how well the Lytefire can handle such a big batch of production. And it’s so good to see myself and other bakers I work with put in a full tray of ready to be baked products as they are taking out the fully baked tray of solar goodies."
"Training with the Lyfeire technology is environmentally friendly and using solar as a form of energy that will sustain my life and the community without causing harm such as C02. As a bakery we are preserving the environment and the other living organisms."
"What attracted me to the Lytefire was the simplicity of the product, and the fact that it’s an extremely robust and a highly efficient mechanical unit."
"The community still considers solar energy as an alternative, yet it is the first energy source that isn’t owned yet; nobody utilizes the sun."
"I enjoyed the training and it the importance of using solar energy as a natural source of energy! I have gained self-confidence, being creative and how to work in a team. I believe the Lytefire will help bring income for the bakery team at Smart up Factory and create job opportunities within the community."
"The Lytefire really represents the hope that we will re-localize economic processes."
"Adapt oneself. Yes, solar energy requires adapting to nature. We do not place the oven in the same place all year round. We are the ones who focus the mirrors by hand for each cooking/roasting. We don’t find it painful but rather beautiful and poetic. We are not machines. This is what gives us the energy to get to work every morning. This is what makes our products beautiful and above all what makes them sustainable."
"December 16 - almost the shortest days of the year!
This morning - 1° in the air, this afternoon 4°. Temperature reached 230°C with the oven. I could have gone higher without any problems, but it wasn’t needed for roasting. After buckwheat, I roasted spelt.
Emitting zero carbon to the atmosphere, 10 kg of roasted coffee substitute! The sun gives us free and abundant energy, so let’s make the most out of it!"
"Since the beginning of February, the Fourmi team at our low‑tech conserverie has been hard at work DIY‑building its solar concentrator.
But why bother building our own production tool?
DIY is an essential way to reclaim our production tools.
By knowing every bolt, every weld, every material used, we’ll be able to maintain and repair it ourselves, reducing our dependence on external suppliers and technicians.
It’s one of our key pillars for creating a more sustainable and resilient artisanal food‑preservation model.
Would you believe me if I told you that we had never welded or even cut steel before?
Do‑It‑Yourself isn’t just for seasoned makers!
All you need is a good dose of motivation, a strong desire to learn, and ABOVE ALL, the right people around you!
This project would not have been possible without:
– Comme Un Établi: this unique shared workshop where professionals and beginners in metalwork can collaborat
– Émeline Delvoye from Atelier Ouka, the metalworker who agreed to accompany us in this crazy challenge
– The plans for the collective solar cooker and the Lytefire community, who made it possible and accessible to build this beautiful tool
A huge THANK YOU to all of you for making this project a reality!”
"All our seeds are first roasted using a rather unusual piece of equipment, whose efficiency is astonishing! We use a solar concentrator which gives us a maximum temperature of 275° C without the need for fossil fuels (I told you, it’s amazing!)."
"What moves me the most I think is the ability that this tech is providing to women to emancipate themselves, to empower themselves, to take the lead."
"These tools are quick to build and effective for the job. As indicated by the Lytefire team it really did take us 2 hours to calibrate the mirrors but then our surprise was great once the water started boiling and the veggies and burgers started to sizzle in the pan!"
"I’m especially excited about this technology because it can be built locally, so it will not be limited by the harsh import duties imposed on us"
"I think I choose Lytefire because it’s the simplest way I found to try what I was thinking about. I already knew that I needed some concentrated solar power for my brewery. And Lytefire was from what I found, that was existing already, it was the simplest. And the design I built and experimented with, was the quickest."
"With the Lytefire, we can produce lots of bread in a day without having to face rising energy costs and therefore increasing our costs to our customers."
"Your design is easy to understand and straight-forward to build. We achieved the advertised temperatures in the first try with none of the complications experienced by other students that used a different solar concentrator design."
Delicious food!
Baking and cooking with direct solar energy doesn’t change the taste of food. Same quality, but with solar energy. It is also possibe to do food canning, baking, roasting, and cooking.
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“ With this solar fire, no need for electricity and no need to burn anything anymore. The mirrors concentrate the sunlight directly. Oh and if you are wondering why there are no PV, no batteries, no rare earth metals, it is because in many places simplicity is the best approach to support people locally.” — Eva and Urs, co-founders Lytefire
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SUNNY PROJECTS
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Ce sont des images du clip si fort "Sabali". Des jeunes migrants Sénégalais se libèrent d’un camp. Cette musique de Amadou et Mariam, puis de DJ Snake qui utilise son succès inter-planétaire pour parler des migrants. “Sabali” signifie “Patience”. Ce clip vu par plus d’1 million de gens raconte l’exil parce qu’ici c’est trop pauvre pour rester.
Les migrants risquent tout.
Là, c’est une image du fils des fermiers de la ferme, celle qu’on voit là-haut, au-dessus de ce mur de la honte construit pour empêcher le passage des migrants, à Tecate, à la frontière mexicaine avec les Etats-Unis. Sous la photo installée par le photographe JR un grand pique-nique a été organisé un jour, les gens se passant les œufs durs et le sel entre les barreaux.
Voici des paroles de IAM, célèbre groupe de rap marseillais. "Nous".
"Génération, lassée d’être blasée
Métissés, métèques ou basanés
On marche avec des trous au fond des poches
Mais on grimpe aux barbelés par la force, ouais. "
Tout ça parle de nous tous. Nous sommes tous des migrants, de cette génération ou d’une génération précédente.
De mon côté sicilien, ce ne sont que des histoires de migration. C’est dans le sang, c’est comme ça. Partir quand tu n’as rien, t’en aller chercher mieux, et ça n’a rien de romanesque, rien.
C’est dangereux, c’est compliqué, c’est dur.
Je me suis souvent dit avec Lytefire que si on arrivait à installer un peu plus d’artisans solaires dans les villages d’Afrique, on arriverait peut-être à relancer quelque chose de local, à taille humaine. Tout en évitant de détruire les forêts. Du moins ce qu’il en reste.
Au plus les fascistes avancent, au plus je me le dis et pour une fois je crois même que j’ai raison. Je crois même que je vais voir ça de mon vivant. Ouais.
Il y a tout un tas d’obstacles-barbelés à dépasser, c’est sûr, mais on va y arriver.
On est l’humanité, et rien ne nous a jamais arrêté d’aimer et de s’entraider.
Merci aux artistes incroyables qui nous le rappellent.
Merci à toutes les utilisatrices et les utilisateurs de Lytefire, merci à nos clients, nous soutiens, tous nos amis.
Bonne année bon sang.
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- Lien vers le clip de DJ Snake (YouTube)
- Lien vers le travail de JR au Mexique
- Lien vers “Nous” de IAM (YouTube)
- Lien vers les projets de petites boulangeries solaires en cours au Kenya avec le soutien de la Fondation Primesteps Jansen (Lytefire Blog)
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SUNNY PROJECTS
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We have received a great support from a Swiss Foundation, a heart warming prize and we’re happy to see more Lytefires in use. Here is our latest sunny news for you!
→ Six new solar bakeries thanks to the Jansen PrimeSteps Foundation
We are happy and honored to start a new project in East Africa with the trust and support of the Jansen PrimeSteps Foundation. The foundation is focused on poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship, and with this new project PrimeSteps is going to help us elevate our work and increase our impact in Kenya.
A few years ago, the Foundation already supported the empowerment of women’s groups in Burkina Faso. For this new project, we will provide our usual training that covers the technical aspects of the technology (use, maintenance, safety) and the basis of entrepreneurship training will cover stock management, accounting, customer acquisition, among the many other topics, to enable each group to succeed as independent entrepreneurs. For the best success of the entrepreneurs, the project will also provide incubation support beyond the initial training, to troubleshoot any entrepreneurial challenges during the startup phase. We believe this incubator approach is more and more the way Lytefire will structure our impact-oriented work.
Image credit: Jansen PrimeSteps Foundation’s website
Every Lytefire installed can protect 651 m² of forest each year from being cut down for fuel. Learn more about our impact here and about our educational work here.
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→ Prix Afrique Excellence: Joan Arwa’s Solar Fire Bakery is a winner
Le Prix Afrique Excellence is a French prize organized by an association created by Mr Christian Teyssonnière de Gramont. The goal is to highlight Africa’s skills and solutions adapted to people’s contexts. It aims to bring to light good innovations, practices and business models that reinforce the local African economy in a sustainable way. A financial donation is given to the 3 winners.
A total of 68 great projects have been submitted for this year’s edition.
Announcement (in French): “Le Prix Afrique Excellence tient à remercier les participants au Concours qui se sont portés candidats. Ils sont au nombre de 68.
Le prix avait insisté sur le fait que les participants au concours devaient présenter des projets intégrant les caractéristiques suivantes :
– Optimisation des ressources naturelles
– Economie circulaire et circuit court
– Innovation technologique pour une bonne durée de vie
– Appropriabilité et accessibilité pour une reproductibilité satisfaisante
– Haute intensité de main-d’œuvre souhaitable.
The three winners / Voici les 3 primés :
1er PRIX : La Voûte Nubienne (Burkina Faso)
2ème PRIX : La boulangerie Solaire (Kenya)
3ème PRIX : Biofert Express (Benin)
This support is a fantastic recognition of Joan’s hard work over the last five years to make her Solar Fire Bakery dream come true. With her as the chief baker, Cheryl and the team of bakery assistants and sales persons, Joan also recently obtained the Kenyan Bureau of Standard’s KEBS-certification granting her access to more markets, such as schools, hospitals, and more. With the Prize’s financial support, she’ll be able to invest in a better transportation solution. This is of course also a beautiful recognition of Lytefire’s team’s hard work to spread new business models.
In Kisumu, Kenya, Joan was recently able to paint her new shop
This is of course also a beautiful recognition of Lytefire’s team’s hard work to spread new business models. In the team, Eva Wissenz, Urs Riggenbach and Muriel Fuhrer in particular have been supporting Joan’s journey over the last years.
Joan, Eva, Urs and Muriel
To learn more about Afrique Excellent and submit a project next year (in French only), check their website : https://www.afrique-excellence.com/
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→ Lytefire in Senegal with ADSCAL
Thanks to the ADSCAL Association and especially thanks to the extraordinary persistence of Mr Mouhamadou Touré, 4 solar ovens have been delivered in the village of Agnam. So many things have been delayed with this project but in the end, everything went well and the solar ovens will greatly improve the villager’s daily life. Three ovens are going to equip existing bakeries. One will go to a group of skilled women baking biscuits and cakes.
First solar oven installed by Michel and Isma
Mr Michel Mouillé, a very skilled trainer, delivered a short training on-site to install the first unit, show the maintenance, safety and usage. With the local help of Mr Abou Sow and Mr Isma Bah, they have solved a few challenges on the way, found solutions and always kept a positive spirit.
A good team of builders and change makers in Senegal
Due to delay in the transportation, the training had to be shortened but the first solar baking tests are showing encouraging results.
We will see how the villagers are going to use their solar ovens but if the 4 Lytefires are used 255 days a year to bake 40 kg of bread per day (which represents 272’000 150g baguettes), we estimate that they will prevent 66 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere. They will save 288 trees from being cut down and protect the equivalent of 2,604 m² of forest. These figures will be compared with data records and we’ll share about it.
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→ Lytefire in France
Manon and Quentin are now in their second summer of using Lytefire community cooker for food canning and training people to learn how to do so. They are using direct concentrated energy as well as an improved cookstove, which is great.
“We transformed our first summer vegetables into zucchini and mint cream, zucchini pickles, and eggplant caviar. Nearly 1,000 organic solar jars will soon be available at a nearby farm and on a weekly local market.”
Conserverie Fourmi is a project that we love to highlight because of their great approach based on learning by doing, great preparation and cooperation.
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→ Lytefire and you
This year, Lytefire’s team has already installed 18 big solar ovens in Kenya, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Angola, and Sri Lanka (soon). And the year isn’t over yet.
People are adapting to their new equipment. They change the baking and cooking organization. They make money locally. They stop cutting trees or using fossil fuels 10 months a year.
It is good but it is not enough if we really want to make an impact.
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SUNNY PROJECTS
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We are finally catching up with updates on the different projects we have been working on these last months in Mozambique, Kenya, Madagascar, Guinea Bissau, Angola, Ethiopia and Mexico. The website is updated and you can have a look here.
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→ Lytefire in Kenya with Word Vision
Joan Arwa surrounded by the training participants and solar bakers
As you know, Joan Arwa is successfully running her solar bakery in Kisumu. Not far from there, in Sego, she recently trained a great group supported by World Vision for the Noswet program. The group members have known each other for years and are very appreciated in the community.
Proud solar bakers from Sego’s group
As per their report: “The group has over 30 members and they chose 5 to be working in the bakery at all times. They open early morning and close late evening for 6 days of the week, each day they bake 25kgs of bread, scones and cakes.
“This community based group serves various clients ranging from bakery walk-in customers, to nearby retail shops, and schools who give orders in bulk.
“Being a long rainy season they have currently been substituting sunlight energy with charcoal backup as they continue serving clients. When there is sun, of course they make solar baking. They say they use both sources of energy to power the bakery. The group has been working on buying more baking tins to produce more.”
World Vision local staff highlights that the group makes profit everyday with the solar barking activity and invests in their development. Soon the data collection will start and it will be possible to quantify everything much better.
Inauguration day with World Vision
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→ Lytefire in Guinea-Bissau with SWISSAID
It is in three locations in Guinea-Bissau that Sam Rodrigues installed new Lytefire ovens with the equipment for the kitchens.
The Lytefire equipment arrives in Bafata, Senegal
Installation in Oio village, Senegal
The villages benefiting from this SWISSAID support are Bafata, Cacheu, and Oio.
This project was a bit stressful because the rainy season was about to start and everything had to be rushed to install the equipment and make the first tests. Sometimes, the weather wasn’t that great at all to bake with the sunlight.
As we are entering the rainy season in West Africa, we all are patiently waiting for better forecasts in a few months now. Then, the villages will be able to decide and organize for the best usage of their solar ovens.
Users participate to the installation process in Cacheu, Senegal
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→ What makes Lytefire unique?
If you don’t know our work that well and if our innovation isn’t clear yet to you, take 95 seconds to read this blog post.
And if you wish to introduce us to NGOs, Foundations and Sponsors, we are always welcoming new cooperation!
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UNE NOUVELLE BOULANGERIE MI-BOIS, MI-SOLAIRE
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C’est sur la somptueuse île sauvage de Belle-Isle-en-Mer, en Bretagne, que Naig a décidé de se lancer. Elle nous a contactés il y a déjà longtemps, elle a observé les autres artisans solaires nourriciers, elle a bien entendu contacté NeoLoco et elle a décidé de se lancer. Sa boulangerie s’appellera PAMIE.
Naig a prévu deux cuissons avec son four à bois à l’intérieur du fournil où elle fera son pain la nuit : “ Au plus fort de la saison, je ne dépasserai pas 80 à 100 kg de pain par jour.” Elle se servira de sa Lytefire autant que possible certains jours, pour des biscuits aussi. Elle tient au four solaire pour faire des animations, et de la sensibilisation auprès des scolaires.
Bretonne d’origine, Naig porte son projet seule, motivée par la mémoire de ses grands-parents, dont un grand-père passionné par l’énergie solaire.
Afin de pouvoir commander son four à Grégoire, Naig a besoin d’un coup de main financier. Quelle que soit la somme finale de sa campagne, elle lui sera reversée donc votre soutien compte vraiment. Voici la page pour soutenir son beau projet si vous le pouvez : PAMIE
Et si vous avez des amis Bretons, Bretonnes, amoureux de la nature et du bon pain, partagez cette info.
Un grand merci d’avance !
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SOLAR BAKING NEWS FROM UGANDA
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There are 2 types of journeys that people can take with a Lytefire solar oven.
1. Entrepreneurial
2. Community Based Organization (CBO)
After Joan Arwa last time sharing about her Solar Fire Bakery in Kenya, today it’s another team presenting what they do with their Lytefire in East Africa.
The project in Nebbi, Uganda, started in 2021 with the support of Plan International Finland - Plan International Suomi and Plan International Uganda.
Back then, a group of young adults received a Lytefire solar oven old generation (without the charcoal drawer) and a long training to launch a professional solar baking activity adapted to their environment. Since then, they never stopped and they now generated some profit.
CBO’s organization is sometimes great to start and get a group to make the best use of their solar oven. At Lytefire, we are all about the productive use of solar energy and now this team would like to start their entrepreneurial adventure.
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Fresh news from the team running the Nebbi Smart Up Solar Bakery in Uganda:
Benedict Bithola – Oyella Janety – Prudence Vasta & Benedict
How is Nebbi Smart Up bakery doing since its creation in 2022?
We have been able to sustain our livelihood through baking and we created a platform for many youths within the region who are employed in selling our baked products like cookies, cakes, buns, donuts, bread, mandazi and others to be engaged instead of turning into criminal activities, robbery, drug abuse among others.
Our bakery has emerged as one of the best bakeries in producing quality products in the region and offering quality training services in baking skills.
The bakery has also become a centre of training for youths who have passion for baking and this has enabled them to gain more skills in baking and marketing.
There is steady growth and profit has been realised due to purchase of new equipment like cake stands, baking tins, buckets, and the ongoing construction of a new kitchen.
We are able to repair broken mirrors, buying of cake mixture with a larger capacity to accommodate bigger orders.
Our current goal is to open up our own outlet in town away from the bakery so as to limit congestion when buyers come and we hope to achieve this after completing the construction of the kitchen.
Construction of the new kitchen next to the solar oven
Joining the Lytefire project was a special moment and the best decision we have ever made because in most countries in Africa, especially in Uganda in which our bakery is located, we are educated to look for jobs as job seekers not as job creators but this bakery group with the Lytefire solar oven and training has given us an opportunity to create jobs.
Written by Mr Benedict Bithola, Manager Smart up Solar Bakery Nebbi Uganda.
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We have acknowledged growth this year because we sat down and realized that our niche market was cake buyers and so we invested a lot towards that in terms of machinery, baking tins, cake stand, refrigerator, commercial cake mixture, human resources, repairing of broken items, replacement of spoilt ones like the mirrors, the cake mixture and to add on that we enrolled in a one month training on cake decoration to perfect our style.
Prudence Vasta
We have made it as the only bakery dealing in large scale cake production and we are recognized in the West Nile region. The district has recognized us with awards of certificate of appreciation for our Outstanding contribution in transforming the lives of the young people. They pledge to support us especially in marketing and access to government loans and grants to support the youth.
Written by Miss Prudence Vasta, Manager Smart up Solar Bakery Nebbi Uganda.
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A solar bakery in Kenya is growing
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There is great news for solar baking in Africa from Joan Arwa. Today’s post comes directly from her. Spread the word in your African network!
How is the Solar Fire Bakery doing today since its creation in 2022?
New equipment and opening a 2nd shop means growth towards the right direction. In the past year, me at Solar Fire Bakery Kisumu have realized that there is money in the bakery business and I just need to invest more into pushing for more growth (by buying machines like mixer, bread proofer, dough sheeter, bread slicer). Growth that brings smiles and joy to more families, growth that shows love through the products that we bake for our community.
Sheryl at the Solar Fire Bakery
Sheryl and two more bakers Melda and Cynthia wake up early daily to come and work here with me at Solar Fire Bakery.
We are happy to serve our clients daily with the same focus and enthusiasm. Because there is lots of demand, I decided to open my new shop in Harambee market in Kisumu county. A shop we use as an outlet and pickpoint of our products by our sales team of 2 (hoping to grow to 5 in the near future).
My new shop!
In this outlet the most preferred products are sweet bread, scones, biscuits, brown whole-wheat bread, peanut butter and fried pastries called mandazi.
And it’s me. Happy and a bit tired also as being an entrepreneur isn’t always easy!
Joining the Lytefire group was one of the best decisions I ever made. Because I got to start my own business, grow it and find satisfaction in what I do while creating jobs and educating the different people from my community, and how important the environment needs to be taken care of by protecting the trees and good air. This happens because whenever they see my Lytefire oven they ask the question: how does this machine operate with just solar light?
Being a solar baker comes with many challenges, as an entrepreneur, as a woman, and as a pioneer. Believing in what you do, patience and staying focused on solving each entrepreneurial problem one by one can also be fun once you are in the process.
People love the taste of our baked goods and this makes us happy.
"Joan’s bread is better than any other. So yummy! Her solar bakery is the best bakery in town."
– Sylvia Atayi, Elgeyo Marakwet Cluster Manager, World Vision Kenya.
I hope that many others will be inspired to do the same and create their local solar activity.
All pictures © Joan Arwa, 2025
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