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Malawi The Warm Heart of Africa. University Lutheran Church of Hope Mission Trip September 14-October 3, 2006. A Solar Oven. Tell me more!. The Solar Oven comes with all the accessories needed to cook, including 2 - 3.4Qt. (3.0 L) black, enameled pots with lids
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MalawiThe Warm Heart of Africa University Lutheran Church of Hope Mission Trip September 14-October 3, 2006
Tell me more! • The Solar Oven comes with all the accessories needed to cook, including • 2 - 3.4Qt. (3.0 L) black, enameled pots with lids • 1 thermometer with F & C scales • An instruction manual that includes recipes • 1 WAPI (Water Pasteurization Indicator) that confirms when water is safe to drink. • The Solar Oven weighs just 10 pounds and is only 12 ¼” high by 27 ¼” long by 17" deep. • To learn more, go to http://www.solarovens.org
What problems do Solar Ovens alleviate in Malawi? • Malawi suffers from deforestation. It takes a ton of wood to maintain a family of 4 for a year. • Women, especially young women, spend large amounts of time and effort foraging for firewood. • When firewood is not available, people may drink contaminated water, leading to diseases. • Women who work in cooking tents and the babies strapped to their backs suffer from lung and eye afflictions from being in smoke. • Women in long skirts risk setting themselves on fire.
How does one get to Malawi?We took this Northwest A330 from Minneapolis to ..
.. then left the next day, flying past Tanzania’s Mount Kilamanjaro...
.. and on to Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital, in this Kenya Airways 767-300.
Inside the ELCM (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Malawi) compound at Lilongwe. Luther Hall is to the left, the cathedral is in the background.
Looking outside the main gate of the compound. People are everywhere, the roads are mostly unimproved, and the ground is pretty barren.
Eric, an employee of the ELCM. This is a Malawi laundromat. We did our laundry this way, too; with helpful advice from Eric.
During the sermon, Abusa (Pastor) Kwanza Yu taught the children under a tree in the yard.
In a nice tradition, the choirs continue to sing as everyone leaves the church after worship.
Tim assembles a solar oven. The 7 of us were able to take 12 knocked-down ovens to Malawi.
Check it out! Over 100 degrees Celsius, the boiling point of water. That’s the Malawi sun in action!
This slide was dangerous; even the kids could see that. They climbed up the trough, but wouldn’t go down it.
Our happy home in the ELCM compound in Lilongwe. Our room was in the short portion of the “L”. Conditions were pretty spartan by our standards.
The Mission; solar oven in front. Bishop Joseph Bvumbwe is front and center; behind to the right is his associate, Mphatso Thole, who shepherded us all over Malawi. Nice job, Mphatso!
Street scene in Lilongwe. As the mosque indicates, Islam is growing in Malawi. There appears to be no evidence of tension between Christians and Moslems.
Kristof Nordin, an American ex-pat now living in rural Malawi. He and his family are working to prove the viability of many types of foods in that environment.
The gang having tea in Kristof’s very lush garden. He’s figured out how to have viable food crops all year round amid his neighbors’ brown fields.
Edwin the gatekeeper (standing), and a friend. Edwin, a gentle and dear fellow, is one of the one-out-of-six Malawians carrying HIV.
Here’s one of the problems we’re trying to mitigate: Transporting firewood via bicycle. How much did he have to pay for this? How far did he have to go to get it?
Here’s one of the problems we’re trying to alleviate: The need to gather and transport firewood.
Our very luxurious cabin at Mvuu Camp in Liwonde National Park.
Wart Hogs in the yard. They appeared to be neither threatening to us nor threatened by us.
Njovu!One of a number of elephants we saw while on a drive around the park in the early evening.
Part of the tradition at Mvuu Camp is to stop by the Shire river and enjoy an MGT while the sun sets.
MGT* • * (That’s a Malawi Gin & Tonic!)
Early in the morning…. • We had gotten used to hearing wart hogs in the yard and monkeys scampering on the roof. • However, the crashing we heard around 4:30am was a mystery. • Craig got up and peeked out from behind the linen curtains and there were 2 elephants, Mama and Baby, pulling branches out of the trees for breakfast! • Sydney looked out the side and, not 10 feet away, was Papa! BIG!WAY above the roof line! We watched hushed for about 10 minutes until they all moved silently away!
The next morning, we went cruising on the Shire, home to Mvuu, the Hippopotamus!
Antelope grazing along the Shire, keeping their distance from….
Cormorants that have turned everything white with their droppings.
