2008 | Rachel Andres Founder + Director | Jewish World Watch Solar Cooker Project
www.solarcookerproject.org
Jewish Values
“I was encouraged by my parents and grandparents to “not stand idly by.” They taught me that it is the obligation, of each who can, to repair the world...and that even small actions matter. Working with the SCP allows me to incorporate these values into my work and life every day.”
Global Impact
Keeping Darfur refugee women safe by creating the world's largest solar cooking project.
Jewish World Watch’s Solar Cooker Project is helping 90,000 Darfuri refugees by making and distributing over 60,000 cookers to four refugee camps in Chad. The project protects Darfuri refugee women and girls by reducing their need to leave the relative safety of refugee camps in search of the firewood needed to cook meals. This landmark project provides women with income opportunities to manufacture cookers, training that allows them to teach others to use the cookers and to make the hay baskets used to keep warm the evening meal. The goal is to serve all 285,000 refugees in 12 camps in Chad.
