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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Lamin Sawo, coordinator of the President’s International Award solar cooking project has said his project has trained over 1,000 Gambian women in solar cooking during the last summer.
Sawo made this revealation in his office at the President’s International Award Scheme in Bakau. Sawo revealed that his solar cooking project conducted a solar cooking training programme with women in various villages in The Gambia namely, Kerr Tomataba, Naneto Seyoni and Kartong.
According to him, the project which has its roots in the United States of America, was represented during the training programme last summer. Macolm Gee, program coordinator in the United States led the training team to train women on how to make and use solar panels for cooking and that, about 15-20 women were trained in each of the seven villages that benefitted from the training,” he said.
The purpose of the training, according to him was to train women in The Gambia on the principles and the use of solar panel cooking and also to show out to the public the new technology. “The training is aim also at reducing the use of fires fuelled by wood and to save time for those who walk for long kilometres to look for wood” he said.
Sawo revealed that plans are underway for continue training for Gambian women while those villages that benefited from the training programme will be supplied with cooking solar panels and its associated equipment for their own training needs and use.
In a bid to find a solution to a constraint associated with solar cooking, Mr Sawo stated that this project which comprises eleven board members, will be visiting The Gambia from the USA in July 2009. Their visit he added, is meant to find ways and means by which solar energy can be stored to enhance cooking even during the night or cloudy days.
Sawo made this revealation in his office at the President’s International Award Scheme in Bakau. Sawo revealed that his solar cooking project conducted a solar cooking training programme with women in various villages in The Gambia namely, Kerr Tomataba, Naneto Seyoni and Kartong.
According to him, the project which has its roots in the United States of America, was represented during the training programme last summer. Macolm Gee, program coordinator in the United States led the training team to train women on how to make and use solar panels for cooking and that, about 15-20 women were trained in each of the seven villages that benefitted from the training,” he said.
The purpose of the training, according to him was to train women in The Gambia on the principles and the use of solar panel cooking and also to show out to the public the new technology. “The training is aim also at reducing the use of fires fuelled by wood and to save time for those who walk for long kilometres to look for wood” he said.
Sawo revealed that plans are underway for continue training for Gambian women while those villages that benefited from the training programme will be supplied with cooking solar panels and its associated equipment for their own training needs and use.
In a bid to find a solution to a constraint associated with solar cooking, Mr Sawo stated that this project which comprises eleven board members, will be visiting The Gambia from the USA in July 2009. Their visit he added, is meant to find ways and means by which solar energy can be stored to enhance cooking even during the night or cloudy days.
Author: DO
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