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Helping in Afghanistan

Miami Country Day School Students Raise Funds for Solar Stoves for Afghanistan Matched by Rotary Club

With the growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, students from the Abess Center for Environmental Studies (A.C.E.S.) at the Miami Country Day School are using the proceeds from their annual plant sale to help send large VILLAGER SUN OVENS to help in the feeding of refugees. Each oven can cook over 1,200 meals per day using just the sun for fuel.

Using the sun to cook food will allow the space on planes and trucks that was used to transport cooking fuel to be used to send more food and thereby enable the feeding of more people. The funds that the students raise will be matched by the Miami Shores Rotary Club and be used by a Rotary Project that provides VILLAGER SUN OVENS to needy groups around the world. These ovens are extremely well insulated to hold heat in and keep cold out. Even though the winters are very cold in this area of the world, there is still an abundance of sunshine, which is conducive to solar cooking.

The first VILLAGER SUN OVEN is currently en-route to Dushanbe, Tajikistan. From Tajikistan it will be transported by truck along with food supplies. The first oven will be used in northern Afghanistan at the IDP camp at Dasht-i-Qala. Last month there were 61,000 families living in this camp

Other schools are being urged to participate and there is a good possibility that the local Rotary Clubs will match the money that students raise. Please make donations payable to the Temple Solar Project and send to the attention of Rowena Gerber at the following address:

Rowena Gerber
Miami Country Day School
PO Box 380608
Miami, FL 33238-0608

For additional information please contact:

Rowena Gerber
gerberr@mcds.pvt.k12.fl.us

The Abess Center for Environmental Studies (A.C.E.S.) is a recipient of the Stockholm Challenge Award and is cooperating with HORIZON International.

(c) HORIZON INTERNATIONAL 2001