Solar Household Energy

08/25/2026

Cocineros Solares has been giving Haines Solar Cookers to many of the valuable members of the community. Thanks for the big effort, this outreach team is amazing!

04/23/2026

This is Earth Week!

Like every year, we take the time to recognize how important is to use the natural resources to preserve the planet we live in. A good way to do so is helping us out with the solar energy.

Your generosity fuels cleaner air, healthier families, and a more sustainable planet.

Help us bring the power of the sun to communities worldwide.

You can donate on SHE’s website via PayPal, Venmo, or Credit Card to your favorite project – including:
o Solar cookers for poor rural communities in Mexico
o “100 Families” in Nairobi, Kenya
o Solar cookers for refugees in Kenya, Uganda, and Chad
o Solar cooking education and advocacy
o Solar cooking research and development

What your gift can provide:
 $40 — Train a solar cooking ambassador to spark change in their community.
 $75 — Provide three solar cooker kits for three families, creating smokefree homes.
 $150 — Support four families with solar cookers and long-term follow-up.
 $500 — Fund a month of solar cooking social enterprise startup costs, building sustainable livelihoods.

For more information, contact: [email protected]

02/11/2026

Wanted to share this tool for those who are new to solar as a renewable resource. Here you will find a starting point to understand this bright new (old) idea of using solar energy as power.

We also analyse the key performance and design characteristics of projects to derive average and best practice benchmarks, both worldwide and by region, for parameters such as:

12/11/2025

Thanks to a wonderful partnership with Banco de Alimentos Querétaro ,Cáritas de Querétaro, IAP, Club Rotario de Querétaro , Cocineros Solares, Narra Comunicación, and Haines Solar Cookers with sponsorship from the London South, Canada, Rotary club, we have expanded our solar cooking project in Queretaro to a new town in Queretaro: Portezuelo. 15 women who relied on fuel wood for cooking can now use the power of the sun to cook their food. This helps protect their forests, helps cooks breathe in less smoke, and saves them time from firewood collection and cooking labor.

12/01/2025

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday. Please consider a donation to a very good cause that can make it a difference around the world. Go Solar! Go SHE! We give you our thanks!

If you wish to donate to a specific SHE project (for example: 100 Families, Oaxaca social enterprise, etc.), please let us know by adding a note under the donation amount.

11/17/2025

Last weekend, Lorena with Cocineros Solares brought solar cooking to over 30 women and 20 children in impoverished Zaachila, Oaxaca. Check out her post!

10/26/2025

We were so proud to celebrate Lorena Harp on International Rural Women's Day on October 15! Lorena is one of eight women in the world to have won this prestigious prize in 2025 award by the World Women's Summit Foundation. Lorena has dedicated over 20 years to empowering rural women in Oaxaca and beyond through solar cooking, organic vegetable gardens, and more.

10/14/2025

Today we are celebrating Lorena Harp! Lorena is among the 8 Laureates chosen by the WWSF Prize Jury for the 2025 awards. Lorena, our solar cooking champion in Mexico for over 20 years, has been awarded the prestigious Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life. Her award page, story and impact on rural women is featured on the WWSF website: https://www.woman.ch/laureate-2-maria
Congratulations, Lorena!

The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs incl...

09/12/2025

Let's learn about this great bakery in Lesotho: Walker Solar Bakery. They have a training program so 20 students can learn about solar ovens. The course takes place during 2 weeks and participants get to know about the importance of clean cooking and baking with solar technology. Is not that amazing?! Kudos!

NEW: The Walker Solar Bakery is a solar‑powered community bakery located in Matsoatlareng village, Maseru, Lesotho. It was launched in 2023 by Karabo Motsamai, with a mandate to combine a love for baking with green energy to create a sustainable business that will benefit both the environment and ...

07/10/2025

"The Sun Shines on the World and Warms the Hearts of Those who Admire It." Beautiful words in this video by Narra Comunicación about our project in Queretaro, Mexico, to bring solar cooking to low-income communities receiving food assistance so they can save on fuel as well as food costs. This project was carried out in partnership with Cáritas de Querétaro, Banco de Alimentos Querétaro, Club Rotario de Querétaro, Cocineros Solares and Haines Solar Cookers . Please enjoy!

SHE partnered with the Queretaro branches of the Mexican Food Bank Network and Caritas International to introduce solar cooking in rural communities in the s...