A
solar powered oven will make it possible to train orphans of war
in their late teens and others without livelihoods to bake bread.
This will create a large city bakery, which will give people a
profession, income, and facilitate their reintegration into the
Angolan society.
The program
would also radically decrease the number of people stepping on
land mines while collecting firewood for baking. Bakeries now
pay people to collect their needed firewood.
By diminishing
the search for firewood, it maybe possible to reverse the massive
deforestation, soil erosion and desertification that Angola is
experiencing. Unless this self-destructive path is addressed immediately
in a pragmatic way, deforestation is likely to become the primary
obstacle that impedes the advancement of sustainable development.
As the project
becomes successful, we plan to get loans to establish a company
in Angola to manufacture solar powered ovens that could be sold
all over Africa. This will make it possible for every family in
rural Angola to have a high quality, efficient solar oven that
they have been trained to use. To accomplish this we need financial
resources and show that the poor can and will pay for high quality
functional solar cooking appliances that will improve their way
of life and save their country from environmental desolation.
The year 2002
marked the beginning of a new era for Angolans after four decades
of a terrible war – now an era of a lasting peace. The war in
Angola destroyed most of the infrastructures. As thousands and
thousands of internally displaced people and refugees return to
their areas of origin to begin their lives from scratch, the whole
system in the country is overwhelmed. The rate of unemployment
is staggering and there won’t be peace as such if the Angolan
people do not have educational and economic opportunities.
In spite of
the massive destruction to so many people’s lives, Angola is blessed
with an abundance of sunshine. Solar energy is the least polluting
and most inexhaustible of all known energy sources. The bakery
equipment, including the solar powered oven is $10,500.00.
If you would
like to contribute to the Solar Powered Bakery Project in Angola,
please: Mail-in your donation by clicking
here. You can also donate
online here or by phone by calling (847)
733-1276.
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