Subject: The solar cookers
Date: Sunday, March 28, 2004 5:55 PM

Dear Jim and Pamela, 

I hope that you are both well and still working hard. Wherever you are I am sure 
you will win because you are hard working people. 

The solar cookers were great. One of them is working in our office working with 
the sun. There is always something on it. Food, tea and water. Some months ago the 
solar cooker cooked for 28 persons.

There are 13 other families that are using one of  the solar cookers. My house is 
one of them. We cook everything before noon. The lunch, dinner, tea and boiling 
the water for drinking. My wife also helps some of the neighbour families to cook 
their food with the solar cooker. Bosaso weather is ideal for these solar cookers. 
All the using families and Horn Relief are sending their blessings to Jim's mother 
for this great gift and we are all thanking her for this.

The solar cookers will be training in cooking with the alternative energy for the 
Somali people who are avoiding problems with the use of charcoal for the first 
time. I will be sending some of the photos of the solar cookers in use.

Best regards and thank you very much.

Omar M Irbad