What would you risk for your child?
It's a question asked every day in Darfur. Women risk rape and mutilation each time they leave the refugee camps in search of fire wood. With as many as 400,000 Darfuris dead and 2.3 million more having fled their homes for the safety of refugee camps, it may seem overwhelming but there is hope.
And it comes in the most unlikely shape of a stove. Learn more about the Berkeley-Darfur Stove, donating and how you can make a difference in Darfur.
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what is a
berkeley-darfur stove?
It's a life raft, a call to action and proof to Darfur refugees that their problems
have not been forgotten.
The stove itself is nothing more than a handful of metal pieces but combined with creative problem solving and engineering innovation, it becomes a symbol of hope. It can keep women safe and help them provide better nutrition to their children. Because the stove frees women from hours of searching for fire wood, they can reallocate that time to money-making ventures like weaving mats.
But it's not just hope for Darfur families. It's hope for Darfur itself. Since it uses significantly less fire wood than a traditional three-stone fire, the Berkeley-Darfur Stove gives the environment a chance to recover. And that's really all that Darfuris want — a chance to recover.
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popular mechanics magazine- november 2007
Ashok Gadgil wins the 2007 Breakthrough Award for the Berkeley-Darfur Stove. An estimated 2.2 million refugees huddle in makeshift camps in the Darfur region of western Sudan. In the camps, they are safe, but they cook their meals over inefficient wood fires, and as already scant forests are depleted they must venture ever farther to gather fuel...
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smithsonian magazine- october 2007
Smithsonian Magazine interviews former Darfur Stoves volunteer, Christy Galitsky. Nearly three years ago, Christina Galitsky joined a team of scientists who had been asked an urgent question. Was it possible for researchers at California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she is an engineer, to devise an expedient method for the displaced of war-torn Darfur to cook their meals...
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newsweek magazine - july 16,2007
As for so many of us, the genocide in Darfur was merely an abstraction to Ashok Gadgil, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. But in September 2004, he got a call from the U.S. Agency for International Development..