What is a Solar Bakery in the Humanitarian context?
Baking with the sun allow to produce tasty breads and pastries with direct solar heat. No electricity, no pollution, and lots of satisfaction!
Wherever a Lytefire Oven is installed in a sunny country, the energy bills, pollution, deforestation expenses can be significantly reduced for most of the year. On top of this impact, the bread production capacity is real: from 10 kg to 110 kg per day. For the bread, it depends on the recipe. And it can also bake delicious pizza, biscuits, buns, cookies, cakes, croissants, etc.
We focused on bread because in many countries bread is on so many tables every day. Bread is such a powerful symbol of conviviality and sharing. But Lytefire can also be used with even better results for roasting, cooking and sterilizing big quantities of water.
When we work with NGOs, we offer a comprehensive training to support vulnerable people in the creation of their own solar bakery in order to create more local wealth and stability. It is now also possible to be trained at distance with one of our trainers, with support of pedagogical documentation and tutorials.
Yes, it requires a sunny day to work and that’s the case 8-10 months a year in so many countries, right? Many solar bakeries in Europe and Africa are already using Lytefire and they learn how to adapt their production to a clean, intermittent energy source. Check the FAQ if you have more questions. Or contact us right now to discuss your project!
Associations, NGO’s and Government Agencies can include this approach to their livelihood programs. Check the Projects page to see the previous projects with NGOs.
We can’t wait to see how we can contribute to a better world together!
Nebbi Solar Bakery trainees in Uganda (c) Lytefire
Proud solar bakers in Uganda (c) Lytefire
Solar baked production in Uganda (c) Lytefire
Trainee in Uganda (c) Lytefire
Nebbi solar bakery’s fellows during the demo day organized at the end of their training (c) Lytefire
Solar buns production for Mwanza’s school in Tanzania (c) Lytefire
Trainee in Tanzania (c) Lytefire
Buns solar production in Tanzania (c) Lytefire
Solar bakery in Jinja (c) Lytefire
Martin Pouabidjie, trainer, in Burkina Faso (c) Lytefire
Nebbi Micro Solar Bakery
- Revenue: 110 € / month
- Solar baking days: 12 / month
- Production: 120 kg / month
“Give someone bread, and they will eat for a day.
Give someone a Lytefire and there is free energy to bake
for the rest of their lives.“
— Lucas Prieur
Featured Implemented NGO Projects
11 solar ovens in Uganda
We are back in action in Uganda in 2021-2022 with Plan International Finland and Plan Uganda! We already delivered two of our solar bakery and entrepreneurship trainings at Plan’s SmartUp Factory Hubs in 2018. Now we’re back to do another nine installations and trainings, and two refreshers! We (…)
A Montessori school in Tanzania
The project with Mwanza’s Montessori school started in 2021 and is a full success because the school is since then not only solar baking 300 buns per day and saving on the energy bill but they also sale their extra baked production. The canteen is equiped with several Lytefire Pro. The (…)
In Haiti in 2015
in 2015
Lorin Symington has a special connection with Haiti and thinks that if Lytefire workd there, it can work everywhere! With the logistic support of a small local NGO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Communiterre, the goal of the first project was to train a local artisan to build the technology, start a (…)
Watch solar bakeries in action
Lytefire used Globally
Lytefire 5 Bakery Trainings in Uganda (2019)
Lytefire 5 Bakery in Tanzania (2018)
Lytefire 5 Bakery Trainings in Uganda (2019)
“The Lytefire5 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.” -
Afros Otieno, Solar baker at Misire, Kenya.
