Solar Panels, The Sunny Energy – Dina Osman – South Africa 

Most of these houses are low cost housing and some are government provided homes yet almost all of them have solar panels fitted on their roofs. Initiatives like this are great not only in providing electricity for the people but doing it in a sustainable manner. Projects like this should be spread all over and governments should encourages the people into adopting sustainable ways of generating electricity.

2nd place winner 18-24 age category

Improved Cooking Stoves – Alphonse Karenzi –Rwanda 

This stove is easily made from local materials. It surely saves up to 85% of firewood compared to traditional stoves and reduces smoke emission significantly.

3rd place winner 18-24 age category

Tire burning for cooking – Malawi - Violet Mojo

A lack of access to clean household energy in developing countries forces more than a third of humanity-2.4 billion people to cook and heat their homes by burning wood, dung and crop waste.The families face an impossible dilemma: cook with solid fuels and suffer health consequences or go without uncooked meal. Despite this, smoke claim the lives of nearly 800,000 children each year and emit gases into the atmosphere contributing to climate change and global warming. Thus the need for sustained and environmental friendly energy sources

Energy in Rwanda – Teddy Kinyanjui – Kenya - 
Pilot testing chrocal briquette making out of papryus and peat for the min.of energy in Rwanda.

*Watch this video from 1st place winner Teddy Kinyanjui speak about his photo submission

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2nd place winner 25-35 age category

Claystoves - Use Less Firewood and Conserve Energy! - Asimenyekyala Nthakomwa – Malawi - 
Claystoves are one efficient energy saving technology that should be promoted if we are to promote sustainable use of forest resources. One woman testified to using the same bundle of firewood for two weeks with a claystove while she could use it for a week when she was using the three stone traditional stove method which is common in rural communities. Lets us empower the women who are the ones mostly fetching firewood for the homes by training them in claystove making which they can also use as an income generating activity.

3rd place winner 25-35 age category

I Prefer My Horse – Azzedine Jamal – Morocco - contact@azzedinejamal.com
A nomad in the desert preferred to abandon his car to return to the horse: ”gasoline? is too expensive,” he said.