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Uganda’s forests are going up in smoke at the rate of 240 million tons per year! Over 90 percent of the population are dependent on fuelwood, charcoal or agricultural waste products for their cooking fuel needs. Uganda’s exploding population has hastened the ever-increasing need for firewood, severely enhancing the degradation of land. This land abuse is not inclined to decrease unless rural residents are given another method of food preparation. Utilizing petroleum-based cooking devices makes the long-range prospects of solving the cooking fuel problem recklessly vulnerable to supply, price, and political variations. |
The yellow in the flag
...the least polluting and |
Sun Oven Uganda has two principal goals:
- We are sending Sun Oven© solar ovens to Uganda. At this time, there are approximately 1,000 ovens in the country, and our goal is to send at least 10,000 ovens.
- We are building a solar oven factory in Uganda. The factory will be located in the industrial park section of Kampala. It will be only the second solar oven factory on the continent, and the very first solar oven factory in sub-Saharan Africa. Here are some of the benefits of building the factory:
- Increase employment opportunities for Ugandans
- Lower the price of each oven so more families can obtain one
- Bring useful technology to the area
The At the present time, an acre of land for the factory has already been granted by the government. Our focus is on sending containers to Uganda to bring the necessary tools to Uganda to outfit the factory.
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