Quick Links to Zahanas activities in Madagascar:
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- Trees Grow - and the boy who planted it
- Getting ready for the 23/24 school year
- Remembering the dream of a woman
- In Memoriam of Jean (12/23)
- What is the Zahana Cup?
- Seed balls for reforestation
- Vegetable Gardens in 2022
- Celebrating seed balls
- Rice bank revitalized
- Jean Zahana's Master Gardener
- Seed Balls
- Innovative pastry oven
- Bicycles for the road
- Hand cranck sewing machine
- Evaluating Reforestation
- Most innovative cookstove 2020
- Our third gardener
- Bicycles mean mobility
- Back to school is different 2020
- Improved cookstove update
- CEPE once again in 2020
- School closure and COVID-19 Prevention
- Improved cookstoves
- Expaning tree nursery
- Innauguration: second school building
- Moringa trees in the school garden
- Clean and Safe Water in Fiarenana
- Solar cooked moringa noodle soup
- Award of Excellence for CARMMA
- CARMMA and CSB1/CSB2
- First Baby born in the new CARMMA rooms
- Moringa in the school yard
- One man, one tree, 1000 Morings seeds
- Video: Moringa Leaves Omelette
- Planting a Moringa Forest in Madagascar
- Zahana 10th Anniversary
- Raising piglets for breading and income
- Potato a new 'old' idea
- Participatory Development Explained
- A failure story with a happy end
- Awarding reforestation
- Int. Women's Day
- Breadfruit - solar cooked videos
- Solar Cooker Videos
- How to video: Build a school
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Solar water pasteurization and cooking
- How-to Solar Cooking Videos
- Solar cooker update 12/12
- Solar Box cookers in the schools
- Cooking witht the sun
- New, improved cookstoves
- Solar Cookers
- Solar cookers for Madagascar
- What is solar water pasteurization?
- Solar Water Pasteurizer in Action
- Solar cooker update, July 2010
- An innovatiove solar cooker
Introducing solar one village at a time
The solar water pasteurizes have been well received by the villagers. In the school of Fiarenana where access to clean safe drinking water is still an ongoing challenge, solar water pasteurization is the best way to make the water safe for drinking.
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addition, our "˜solar volunteer Bruce has spent over two week in the
villages and introduced a locally built model of a solar panel cooker.
Using an off the shelf car window screen (bought in the big city) and
a plastic bag, this home-made panel cooker is extremely light weight
and versatile. (To learn more about solar panel cookers, one of the key
solar cooking technologies, please visit e.g. solar cookers international
and check out the CokIt www.solarcookers.org).
Panel cookers have technological limitations, such as the plastic bag
required, but are a great way to introduce villagers to the idea to use
the sun for cooking. Small in size and easy to store, rice or beans can
be cooked in an afternoon.
It has been Zahanas learning experience that solar cooking should be introduced incrementally. Once some of the villagers have adopted the idea of experimenting with the solar panel cookers, they can be introduced to box cookers. The only sure way to learn about solar cooking is by cooking with it and getting first had experience.
Once they are familiar with box cookers and use them more regularly they can be introduced to the Balzintubesolar, that is so much more efficient that they will be convinced after the first cooking demonstration.
In addition Bruce introduced a solar panel that can recharge the communitys cell phone. These small solar panels need quite some hands-on training to be used efficiently or they do not work properly. Inadequate training can easily lead to frustration and solar technology just collecting dust. The solar panels, which also can power a light, are currently being marketed in Madagascar, but with a price tag of around $30 they are out of reach for most villagers.
Solar cookers for Madagascar main page
Improving cookstoves in rural Madagascar