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About the Solar Oven Partners Ministry
Since January 2000, Solar Oven Partners has equipped over 10 thousand families with practical training in solar cooking, and provided them with the appropriate technology to realize the amazing health, economic, and environmental benefits of harnessing the free energy of the sun! Below are the costs of providing a solar oven to a family. Keep in mind that few could afford the real cost of an oven, so an investment opportunity of 10% of the full cost is offered to each student, thereby creating ownership for those who choose (100%) to take a solar oven.
Shipping and training: $ 50
Component parts of ovens: $100
Complete Package: $150
Become a Sustaining Partner:
Regular monthly gifts are a very significant way in which many donors choose to sustain our ministry. Such generosity demonstrates predictable income around which SOP can plan and act on our goal of providing solar ovens annually to families.
Alternative Gifts:
Through our financial accounting and gifts processing, SOP acknowledges every gift. It is a special privilege to honor or remember your loved ones through Alternative Gifts, with cards sent to both donor and recipient.
- Holidays: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Christmas
- In honor of birthdays, anniversaries, milestones
- Memorials
Become an Oven-A Month Partner:
Oven-a-Month Partners are churches or individuals who donate the funds necessary to equip one family each and every month with a solar oven and the knowledge and skills necessary to cook with and care for it, freeing them from dependence on the expense of cooking fuel and the smoke of cooking fires and protecting the environment in their community. $150/month or $1,800/year makes you and Oven-a-Month Partner.
Donate Online Through UMCOR
The United Methodist Committee on Relief has vetted and approved Solar Oven Partners. UMCOR's administrative costs are covered through apportionments, so 100% of your donation comes to us.
Donate by check
Make your check payable to "Solar Oven Partners." Mail personal checks to:
910 4th St. Ste. G
Brookings, SD 57006
Enclose a note to let us know if your donation is in honor or in memory of anyone. Please include the name and address of the person to be notified of your gift.
Checks from churches should be made payable to "Solar Oven Partners" with "Dakotas Advance #637" on the memo line and mailed to:
PO Box 460
Mitchell, SD 57301
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Click on the link below to be connected to our eBay for Charity site. Would you like to donate an item to our shop? Use the "contact us" at the bottom of our home page.
About Us
A Mission of The United Methodist Church
With the help of donors, volunteers and our on-site partners, we manufacture solar ovens, educate about solar cooking and distribute the ovens to impoverished people in deforested lands.
Health, Wealth and the Environment
Smoke inhalation from cooking over a fire causes lung diseases and eye irritation. Drinking unpasteurized water or milk causes parasites. The cost of cooking fuel can be as much as a third of a low-income earners wages. Solar-baked goods can supplement a family's income. The pursuit of cooking fuel is a major driver of deforestation, which in turn leads to soil depletion, erosion, landslides and even desertification.
Volunteers Make it Happen!
Whether praying for our ministry, making a financial donation, sewing at home or at church with a group, manufacturing ovens at our North or South Dakota workshop or traveling with a team to distribute ovens, you can fulfill your baptismal vows to support the ministry of the church through your prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness with Solar Oven Partners. For more information about volunteer opportunities, give us a call at 605-692-3391 our use our contact form at the bottom of this website. We'll get you connected!
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Every donation is gratefully received and together, your donations have enabled us to place well over 10,000 ovens in the homes of impoverished families in deforested lands.
