| abstract | - In August 2010, GRA won the first place regional award and second place national award at "Nane Nane" - Tanzania's largest farming and agriculture expo! Every year over ten thousand people gather for the three day Nane Nane (8/8) celebration. GRA was invited by the Tanzanian government to present permaculture, solar cooking and rammed earth block construction. Our exhibit was received by over 1,000 attendees who were treated to samples of solar cooked meat and sweet potatoes. GRA's staff educated people on the many benefits of solar cooking from smokeless cooking to preventing deforestation to easy water pasteurization. On the final day, GRA presented a solar cooked cake to the Guest of Honor and other government officials. Image:Global Resource Alliance outside- Kenya - October 2008.jpg In May 2010, GRA received funding from The Ferguson Foundation (TFF) to offer 50 free, one-day solar cooking workshops to rural Tanzanian residents in 2011. TFF also provided funding to subsidize approx 1,300 solar cook kits for very poor families. After one or two months, workshop participants will be invited to another free workshop to share recipes, cover any questions they may have and receive further training and encouragement to continue enjoying the benefits of solar cooking. GRA Tanzania has a beautiful office space on a half acre compound provided for free by the government. Here they are able to store the solar cooking materials, assemble cookits, provide solar cooking classes, teach permaculture, provide a meeting place for participants in their orphans program and store equipment for the GRA water project. With the help of Solar Cookers International, GRA's office in Musoma has become a well established Solar Cooking education site of Tanzania.
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