Well-being Fueled by the Sun
Warmed with Generosity
Blessed with Community
Solar ovens don’t just cook food.
Solar ovens change lives and communities.
Solar Oven Partners focuses on cooking up the conditions for well-being in the Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, and the northwestern lands of the Navajo Nation. By partnering with us as a volunteer or donor, you’ll help to change lives and increase well-being in communities where we work now and wherever God and people may invite us to go as Solar Oven Partners.
Solar Ovens Promote Wellness
Cooking with a solar oven enables a family to eat more nutritious, safe, and flavorful food…but the benefits don’t stop there.
(Play the video to hear what Minorca Says about us)
PhysicalWell-Being
Cooking over a fire exposes the cook and others to the risks of smoke inhalation. Solar ovens cook healthy food and pasteurize water using clean and free energy.
ECONOMICWell-Being
Sunlight is free! Cooking fuel costs money. Families can direct their savings to pressing needs. Some even use the oven to produce supplemental income!
EnvironmentalWell-Being
Burning wood or charcoal for cooking fires creates environmental problems in a community. A free, clean fuel source has many ripple effects.
SpiritualWell-Being
Our faith is rooted in the story of Jesus, whose example of caring we follow. We seek to deepen awareness of and relationship with Jesus Christ.
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
Modern Paraphrase of John Wesley, founder of Methodism
BY THE NUMBERS
Ovens Delivered
COUNTRIES WE Serve
VIM Mission Trips
YEARS IN MISSION
BUILD SOLAR OVENS
Each solar oven costs about $150 to manufacture and deliver to a trained solar cook. Families receive them for a small donation. Because volunteers contribute their labor, our per-unit costs are very low.
Volunteer and Make an Impact
Give the gift of empowered change
WHAT’S NEW
Advent 2021–Lend your aid!
God turned to ordinary Mary and Joseph to usher in God's love. Today God calls on ordinary YOU to spread god's love! YOU can help struggling families who need the financial benefits of cooking with the free energy of the sun. YOU can help protect their lungs and eyes...
Join us on our voyage across the dakotas!
Celebrate the opening of our west of the river workshop on September 26, noon-2:00! Bienvenidos SOP Open HouseDownload (PDF) Our voyagers will be traversing the Dakotas. Here is a list of all the places they’ll be stopping. Come hear what is new in the Solar Ovens...
VOLUNTEER STORIES
Building Ovens with Cleo and the Navajo Nation!
Editor’s note: Cleo Whiteface is a Rosebud Lakota who traveled with the Solar Oven Partners Volunteer-in- Mission team to the Navajo Reservation this summer. Cleo is a Sinte Gleska University student majoring in construction and building trades. What made you decide...