Thank you for your generous support for the continuation of the solar autoclave project and the mission of Salud del Sol, Inc! Last Friday concluded the GlobalGiving Project Challenge, where we finished in 5th place with $5,200. Because we raised over $4000, we were added to the GlobalGiving Website which means we will be able to continue to receive funding.

Additionally, we began our summer research in Nicaragua last Friday. Daniel Hensel and Nathan David are currently in Nicaragua and are working to conduct further testing and capacity development. Your donation is helping to fund these field tests and capacity-building efforts. If you are interested in following the project this summer, please follow Dan and Nathan's blogs on our website listed below. They are already getting down to business, as Dan wrote about Saturday, "We spent the day building solar box cookers, and I even gave a demonstration of the solar autoclave. Students from the National Engineering University in Managua came up for the day, and we talked all things autoclave for some time, which was a great intercultural engineering exchange."

Thank you again for your support and for your contribution to saving lives and empowering underserved communities.

Links:

• Summer 2009 Blogs