Benefits
The technologies we introduce are simple, economical and they have various advantages.
Environmental benefits:
- Two million people all over the world depend on firewood for cooking. The cookers provided by Sol Solidari help to diminish the conflict between the basic needs of these people and the maintenance of our planet's forests.
- The stoves and ovens are sources of air pollution and thus contribute to global warming. By using solar ovens and other more efficient cookers we help to reduce the greenhouse effect.
Health benefits:
- Smoke generated by the traditional stoves inside poorly ventilated dwellings is the cause of many diseases like acute pulmonary infections, chronic bronchitis and lung cancer, responsible for more than a million and a half deaths around the world, especially amongst women and children. When using more efficient ways of cooking the smoke is far less or non-existent in solar ovens and -stoves.
- Smoke generated by the three-stone fires and also by paraffin candles provokes infections and ocular diseases. Solar illumination and solar cookers and ovens remove this problem and more efficient cookers even more.
- Diseases related to bad quality drinking water are responsible for 80% of diseases and deaths in countries on their way to development. At domestic level solar cookers can be used to pasteurize water and milk making them safe for consumption.
- Solar cookers can be used to disinfect sanitary equipment like medical instruments, bandages, dressings and other textile material, without having to use firewood.
Social benefits:
- Millions of women and children daily walk miles and miles to collect wood for cooking. The cookers Sol Solidari introduces require far less firewood so that this tiring task will be reduced. Women will have more time to care for their families and to work the fields, children will have time for education..
- A lot of children that live in places without electricity are deprived of studying because there is no light to study in the dark and during the daytime they have to participate in the household tasks. A simple solar light kit can help to change their lives.
Economic benefits:
- Many poor families all over the world spend more than 25% of their income on fuel to cook. By using more efficient systems a lot of money will be saved which can be used for buying food, for education,for healthcare, etc.
- The majority of the efficient technologies we introduce are locally fabricated, facilitating additional businesses that can generate some extra income for local families and/or communities.
- Solar cookers and -ovens open opportunities to the creation of small restaurants or bakeries which otherwise would not be viable.
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