Temple Solar Project
Co-Chairmen
Evan Freund
Rotary Club of Chicago
Walt Jenkins
Rotary Club of Naperville
630-778-0125
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Program Description
The Temple Solar Project finances, purchases, delivers and sets in operation large baking and cooking sun ovens in world-wide locations where natural fuels are depleted and populations are undernourished. The large Villager Sun Ovens are the basis for self-supporting community bakeries to replace outdated and environmentally harmful methods of cooking and to provide new, healthy means for feeding the citizens in deprived areas of underdeveloped nations. The Temple Solar Project has brought the means for cooking and baking without fossil fuels to numerous communities in foreign lands where natural resources have been depleted or are at great risk.
The Temple Solar Project was founded in the name of William F. Temple, a deceased Hinsdale, Illinois Rotarian and Past District Governor whose vision brought the idea to fruition among Rotary Clubs in District 6450. The large Villager Sun Oven that is purchased for these projects is a high technology instrument invented by Tom Burns, a Milwaukee Rotarian, and fine-tuned by experts at Sandia Laboratories.
Benefits to program recipients
• Nutritious meals though modern technology
• Feeding those in poverty and hunger
• Reducing deforestation and global warming
• Restoring life-giving environments
• Teaching self-support and enterprise
• Improving lives in underdeveloped nations
Country locations
The Temple Solar Project (TSP) has facilitated the startup of over seventy micro bakeries with the help of over 300 clubs and districts in 20 countries on five continents. TSP has provided relief assistance to those in need in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
Program needs from other Rotary Clubs
Each sun oven project costs approximately $15,000 U.S. dollars, which includes the oven, shipping, equipment and food supplies. Where possible, the Rotary Foundation matches 50 cents for each dollar donated by Rotary clubs.
Clubs or individuals are recognized by having their name imprinted on the oven. Individuals or clubs who donate $9,000.00 will have a single recognition and clubs or individuals with a $2,000.00 donation with have a co-donor recognition.
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