The mission of Solar Connect Association (SCA) is to spread integrated solar cooking and water pasteurization in households within Eastern Africa and contribute to improving health and economic welfare of rural women through the creation of clean sustainable energy for cooking-based small scale enterprises.
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Our Focus
We have a production unit targeting to manufacture and distribute in the years 2010 to 2011 the following quantities of appliances country wide: Rocket Stoves using wood: 2000, Cook kits: 4500, Parabolic Solar Cookers: 210, Hay Baskets: 4500, Solar Box Cookers: 500, Water Pasteurization Indicators(WAPIS): 4500. Our target population includes both rural and urban women. We shall create at least 20 jobs for rural women who act as marketers in their own villages.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
The first barrier is a lack of information on the part of the users of stoves. We address barriers through using local women as marketers who teach people they know how to repair their own Rocket and Lorena stoves as well as solar cookers. We advocate for integrated cooking for each household which is comprised of: an efficient firewood stove, a solar cooker and a hay basket(fireless cooker or warmer)for each family.
We are involved in rural marketing using women from the villages themselves to market the appliances in their own communities and they are paid on commission for each stove or solar cooker sold. We also encourage group cooking where women in a village meet once a month and cook together and share meals and share experiences and problems. We also encourage and sponsor home parties where new users and old users meet in one member's home to cook and make parties which results in new sales to new customers and recruit other marketers.
We are interested in high quality products and are willing to receive information on how to improve stoves and solar cookers we promote.
We are very interested in indoor air pollution reduction and health monitoring. That is why we are involved in solar cooking that is 100% clean without emissions that I know of.
Relevant Publications or Studies
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Our Contribution to the Partnership
Our organization can participate in the partnership through contributing ideas, articles in the bulletin and share our experience which is rural based at the grass-roots level. We can also participate in workshops and help show other organizations how to make and use solar cookers, hay baskets, Lorena stoves and WAPIs.
