Eco-Smart Solar Cooking for Sustainable Living in Nakivale Refugee settlement
Description
This innovation introduces affordable solar cookers for refugees and host communities in Nakivale. The solar cookers use sunlight instead of firewood or papyrus roots, reducing pressure on the environment and helping protect Lake Nakivale. They provide a clean, safe, and cost-free way to cook food while saving trees and restoring the land. This solution also promotes better health by reducing smoke in homes and supports long-term environmental recovery.
Impact
The solar cooking innovation will greatly improve the lives of refugees and host communities in Nakivale. Families will save money and time previously spent collecting or buying firewood, allowing them to focus on education and income-generating activities. Reduced cutting of trees and papyrus will protect Lake Nakivale and restore the environment, ensuring a more sustainable source of water and resources. The innovation also promotes better health by reducing smoke-related diseases and encourages peaceful coexistence through shared access to clean energy solutions. Additionally, it will create green employment opportunities for both refugees and the host community through demand creation, installation, scaling up, maintenance, and supply along the solar cooking value chain.
Target Audience
Refugees and the host communities especiaWomen and children will benefit most through reduced exposure to harmful smoke and less time spent collecting firewood. Local youth and technicians will also gain from green employment opportunities created through the production, installation, maintenance, and supply of solar cookers. Overall, the entire community will benefit from improved health, livelihoods, and a restored environmentally
Industrial Value Chains
Partnerships
Individual (self-led or personal innovation)
Innovation Details
October 1, 2024
Contact Information
Nalukwago Naswirah
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