Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

About more than 100 million people in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan will benefit from the project and it will combat desertification, afforestation and land degradation as well as avoiding smoke-borne diseases which affect millions of poor people.

Project Message

I am Debesai Ghebrehiwet, an inventor of the improved stove and committed to make it effective and progressive to its simplest form by improving it to be locally made by local skill and material.
- Debesai Ghebrehiwet Andegergish, an inventor and director of energy research center

Who is Running This Project

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Eritrea and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).

For more information about Eritrea, read the Human Development Report on Eritrea or the Wikipedia entry for Eritrea.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on October 23, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 16, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Progress report in the high efficient improved stove

By Debesai Ghebrehiwet - Project Leader, October 23, 2007 05:08 PM

The method of integrating high efficient stove with solar home system is just starting and shows wonderful result to modernize the village.

As an example here are two villages are beneficiaries of both the improved stove and the solar home system which cost only 170 USD per household with 2 bulbs and run radio with mobile charger. The name of the village are Ghirat Ghebru which has 140 households and Debrezien 100 inhabitance all of them received solar light and the stove.

This integrated energy is very important to improve the life of the villagers. The places are very remote there is not access to any electricity and therefore they depend to use the kerosene light and traditional stove which is inefficiency manner. They benefit is so great that village which was dark during the evening and was victim of hyena and other animal are now protected by the light alone. The solar light give the surrounding enough light and people and animals are able to look from the distance and find their way to reach their home even during the dark time. So the life of people and animal is saved. Besides students in the village use the light for studying and doing some house work during the evening. In this way the achieve extra income.

Helping such villagers to get all the energy they need is great job and thanks to donors and the Tech museum awards for innovation.

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• Photo: Ghirat Ghebru village

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