Suncookers| 18mins
Director: Catherine Scott | Producer: Catherine Scott & Dee Dee Halleck
Focus Years: 2006 | Country: United States
Synopsis:
In Kenya, deforestation has been so devastating that only three percent of tree-cover remains. In the camps of the northeast, home to tens of thousands of refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, families trade half of their monthly humanitarian food allotments for firewood that lasts only a few days. Throughout the region, women spend hours a day searching for firewood, competing with thousands of others. The result has been horrendous deforestation and with it, massive soil erosion that has removed thousands of acres of land from cultivation. The smoke from cook fires has debilitating health consequences. The charismatic leader Margaret Owino and Suncookers International have created and popularized a remarkable, simple solution: solar cookers. These cardboard and aluminum foil ovens can cook efficiently in sun-rich Kenya, purify water, and save women the back breaking, life consuming drudgery of searching for dwindling supplies of wood.
Suncookers
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18mins
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