Build an oven, cook a meal: How solar energy empowered women in Costa Rica

Journal Article · Fri Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1990 · Sunworld; (USA)

OSTI ID:5959939

Blankenship, J ^[1]

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1. Canadian Univ. Service Organization, San Jose (Costa Rica)

A pilot solar cooking project in the hot, northern province of Guanacaste promises to serve as a model for community groups wanting to build their own solar ovens. An $8,000 (US) grant has been awarded by the Canadian Embassy in Costa Rica to take the Guanacaste project into a second stage in 1990-91. Two construction workshops, with twelve participants in each, are planned in communities near Oriente. Three women from the Oriente group will have paid jobs as organizational facilitators and workshop supervisors. In popular education this is called the multiplier effect - the users of solar cookers construct the ovens themselves, and then instruct others to do the same. 3 refs.

• OSTI ID: 5959939
• Journal Information: Sunworld; (USA), Journal Name: Sunworld; (USA) Vol. 14:4; ISSN SUNWD; ISSN 0149-1938
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140909* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Miscellaneous Solar Applications-- (1980-)
CENTRAL AMERICA
CONSTRUCTION
COSTA RICA
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
GRANTS
LATIN AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
SOLAR COOKERS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
USA