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A long time mentor and friend, Cicely Berry, often says: "all we do comes from our need to survive".

Cis is the Voice Director of The Royal Shakespeare Company. Her profound work and deep appreciation of the human spirit has affected diverse communities all over the world.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Solar Cooking: A Different View of Enviroment & Humanity

http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/refugeerelief/solarcookerproject.html

If you have not heard about this innovation it's worth checking out.


Jewish World Watch is committed to protecting refugee women and girls from rape and other forms of violence, and helping them to rebuild their lives. Women and girls fleeing the genocide in Darfur, Sudan are placed in extreme jeopardy when undertaking the simple, but vital, task of collecting firewood for cooking fuel. We are reducing the vulnerability of these women by providing the Iridimi and Touloum refugee camps in Chad with solar cookers, and reducing their need to collect firewood. Our project protects these women and provides them with income opportunities that include: manufacturing solar cookers, training others to use the cookers and making carrying bags to increase the life span of the cookers. JWW is also developing other companion projects aimed to keep the women inside the relative safety of the camp.

When I heard about this I was moved and amazed at the simplicity and depth of this intervention/innovation.

It makes me consider how we are so disconnected to the earth and how to live, that we miss the humanism and the simple principles of our environment that can provide answers to our most vile problems.

We complicate even our most urgent needs as a society and we actually believe that basic solutions are too difficult to deal with.

My admiration to Jewish World Watch for this.

Sal

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