Deepak, Teddy and Paritta have been making excellent progress with the installation of a solar kitchen at Hunar Ghar. Deepak and Paritta will shortly be visiting a place in Gujarat where they are developing and sell solar technology. We will be installing, for around Rs 25,000 ( GBP350) a solar kitchen that will be able to handle 200 solar meals a day. It will pay for itself in less than two years, as we will be consuming much lass firewood (some will still be needed for during rainy weather, not that there is much of that).

It is more important though in that we will be minimising our impact of deforestation quite considerably, it will now pretty much be only windows and doors that we’ll need to cut wood for. It will also be a great demonstration to the village about solar technology, something which in later years we hope to expand. I am hoping that there may be some kind ot attachment available so that when it isn’t cooking food it is instead generating electricity or boiling water to purify it. That would be totally awesome, and we could later develop ways in which the village can have its own micro solar power electricity generation station.