HUMANITARIAN
The skills and solar tech that create
sustainability.
resilience.
sustainability.
autonomy.
local income.
People want real change. With Lytefire it’s an opportunity to create something stable and sustainable. Lytefire is clean sun heat. It applies everywhere that energy is expensive, unstable, and where clean energy is rare. With Lytefire, one can power a sustainable solar bakery, a seeds and nuts roastery, or a small canteen. We also provide training. We bring Lytefire to the places and communities where it can have the biggest impact. And to succeed the cooperation with the humanitarian sector is key.
On this page: 1. Hardware · 2. Training & Skills · 3. Impact · 4. Projects
Solar Tech
Our products are made-in-Kenya and available for all of Africa. Users can install Lytefire themselves. It is also possible to send a technician and to organize different training. We are here to support you all the way!
Lytefire PRO Solar Oven
The powerful solar oven for baking.
- ☀️ Perfect for buns, cakes, pizza, bread, cookies and more
- ☀️ Deep dish trays to roast nuts
- ☀️ Even heat distribution
- ☀️ Rugged, quality design
- ☀️ Works during rainy season
- ✅ Shipped to location
Lytefire PRO Community Solar Cooker
A powerful device for cooking and food canning — start saving on energy costs today!
- ☀️ Ideal for frying, sautéing & boiling
- ☀️ Perfect for food conservation
- ☀️ Powerful design
- ☀️ Rugged, quality design
- ✅ Shipped to location
Skills & Training
Lytefire is usually easy to install and sometimes a training is needed to facilitate the appropriation or to support the creation of a profitable activity. We can also offer TVET and Tech ToT.
Lytefire for Education, Income Generation and Productive Use
First of all, being an entrepreneur is a mindset and many people have it but they blocked with the lack of abundant free and clean energy. With Lytefire’s simplicity and power, they can create their own, successful and sustainable job. Each Solar Bakery Training is about 3 weeks and goes through all the aspects of launching a small activity. We train groups of beneficiaries, for example youths or women’s groups, in the skills of running their solar bakery.
Alternatively Lytefire can also be used to roast nuts and seeds for snacks and the training can be more focused on this activity.
"Earning money from bakery sales is an integral part of the training. Participants learn the technical, baking and entrepreneurship skills to run the Solar Bakery we start with them. The results are real. "
— Joan Arwa, Trainer
Each participant learns the hands-on skills of baking delicious breads, cakes, cookies and local specialties. On top of this, each participant will learn how to manage the new energy resource, how to plan the production according to the weather. Hygiene, accountability, team management, we make sure the participants can become a successful and independant when it comes to maintain their Lytefire.
Explainer: Why we care so much about maintainability?
Every technology breaks at some point. And if we can’t fix it, well — it remains broken.
We have seen this happen in the field with so many solar lights, water pumps, tractors... that once were shiny but now are just standing around, useless, polluting, a waste of money and hope.
So we designed Lytefire for maintainability. It means that we only use simple materials, and glass mirrors, that are available in any larger town for replacement. This way, users can maintain Lytefire themselves.
Questions? Let’s talk.
Lytefire for Trainers, Vocational Schools and Technical Schools
We offer on-site Training of Trainers (ToT) for vocational schools and TVET programs to integrate our technical know-how into their curriculum.
Post-training, institutions can integrate our methodology, build Lytefire Solar Ovens for internal use, and access ongoing support via the Lytefire Hub.
The Training of Trainer (TOT) is for you if you are interested in:
– Enabling your students to learn and build innovative solar tech
– Using Lytefire in your institution, e.g. to save money on energy
– Offer skills that benefit students now and in the future
The Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is for you if you want to integrate Lytefire’s know-how in your technical school’s curriculum.
Our training are the result of our 15 years building Lytefire in different settings with artisan methods developed with many builders all around the world in challenging contexts. So we know from experience that we can adapt to your unique setup to make the Lytefire ToT a success.
Book a short meeting with us
We are here to help you all the way.
Eva Wissenz
Managing Director and Founder
Urs Riggenbach
Head of Operations
Since 2021 Lytefire is one of the top solutions for canteens of the Global South by EDUCATION FINLAND, the platform of the Finnish National Agency for Education and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Feedback from the field
What They Say
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"This product holds the solution to a group of global issues that we need to tackle now! "
"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."
"Joan’s bread is better than any other. So yummy! Her solar fire bakery is the best bakery in town."
"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."
"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"
“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.”
"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!"
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"Our solar bakery reached a turnover of 123€ per month"
"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)."
"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."
"When we use it with students and the public, it is an impressive and popular tool. Making popcorn with it or stir-frying from the garden are the most common ways that we use it."
" ’Instead of buying charcoal, we use the sun’, great to see such a simple solution with so many applications - including commercial food production - in so many places (many in Africa, but also the video features Switzerland and Finland)."
Our Projects
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Impact
We have created this calculator to help you visualize the reality of the impact created by Lytefire.
1 Lytefire have the following impact each year:
kpi_1 tons CO₂
not emitted (CO₂eq)
kpi_2 baguettes baked *
African baguettes are about 40cm in length and 150g.
or kpi_4 meals cooked **
650g of cooked rice and beans
800 calories per meal
kpi_3 trees
or kpi_5 m² of forest preserved
Your 0 Lytefire are preserving each year kpi_3 trees
This impact comes when replacing firewood as a fuel
Simple and local, with zero CO2 Emissions
when using any version of Lytefire. Because the best CO² is the one not emitted. More about Lytefire
Protect the air and the forests
5 tons of CO² are not emitted each year for each Lytefire used 210 days p.a. to replace wood and charcoal in Kenya.
Clients & Partners
We have implemented dozens of projects in East and West Africa with our clients and partners.
To see all our projects, visit the users page.
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