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 World 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 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 in 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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