· Afghan women bake traditional naan bread with a Sun Oven, delivered in July 2002

· each day, enough bread is baked to feed several hundred children in schools outside Kabul, and in Aibak

· reduces reliance upon oil, gas, wood and other scarce and expensive fuels; improves family health, builds self-reliance

· micro-bakeries established worldwide, including Honduras, Uganda, Haiti, Afghanistan and the USA

· potential for self-creating, self-sustaining micro-enterprises throughout the developing world

 

"One man looked at it and said, 'Now where do I put the kerosene to light it, and the charcoal?' He did not believe me when I said, 'The sun will do it.'"

...Sacred Heart Sisters, Uganda

Knightsbridge, Sun Ovens, Rotary, Tzu Chi Foundation, Mercy Corps, the World Food Programme and Greenstar teamed to send two large solar ovens to Afghanistan.

For more information please go to: http://www.sunoven.com. Send email to Paul Munsen, sunovens@execpc.com. To read more about the Afghan Sun Ovens and Knightsbridge, see http://www.e-greenstar.com/Afghanistan/report6.htm