By Iliya Kure
A Kaduna based NGO, Developmental Association of Renewable Energies (DARE) has unveiled a solar powered oven for cooking and warming food
Addressing a team of journalists who visited DARE office, Director of the NGO, Yahaya Ahmed, said the oven can be used to bake bread, cake, meat, fish and other eatable item within a short time, calling on bakery houses to embrace the new technology, so as to reduce burning of firewood when baking bread.
“This is the first time, we are bringing the technology to Nigeria, and our goal is to train women on its uses, so as to save our forests from going into extinction, especially, due to continuous demand of firewood and charcoal that is ravaging Nigerian forests”
Yahaya who noted that northern Nigeria is blessed with abundant sunlight, said his organisation has embarked on sensitisation of women and youth on ways to embrace cooking foodstuff with the oven.
According to him, many NGOs are promoting the use of the new technology across the world in order to help reduce fuel costs and cut down air pollution, as well as help slow down desertification, deforestation, soil erosion, and global warming.
Mrs. Ruth Timothy, one of the women who was trained on the use of the oven commended the NGO for introducing a better and easy way for women to cook.
She called on rural women to embrace the technology, so as to halt spending money on buying cooking gas and firewood.