By John Barrie | Executive Director
We received a very generous donation this past month that fully funds for our next generation solar dehydrator prototype!
Thank you all for your continued support. We're finishing up our new design that should last decades in the field.
During Covid our Guatemalan maker-space closed permanantly. So, on my last trip to Guatemala I found a new non-profit shop where we can build our Dehydrator 2.0. It is located in Santa Cruz la Laguna. If you have volunteered with us there is a pretty good chance you have visited Santa Cruz, and their trade school CECAP. We hosted a volunteer trip to install solar power on their building back in 2012. CECAP has both wood and metal workshops and their staff are available for helping our team with the dehydrators.
Our new dehydrator design is based, in part, on designs from UTEC in Tulancingo, Mexico with additional input from students from Michigan State University.
We will start construction in the first quarter of 2023 and we will test our design over the summer. If everything goes to plan we should have a final design and a working dehydrator in the fall of 2023.
We will continue to ask for funds to make more dehydrators. A single dehydrator can serve many families in a village or a farming coop. Right now we have farming coops and families who want to share dehydrators and help themselves provide better nutrition to their children.
Thank you so much!
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