Refugee Stories Project Presents Exclusive Online Learning Resource

by Barney Whitwham

Refugee Stories, part of the Refugee Communities History Project (RCHP), recently announced a new online resource designed primarily to support Key Stage 3 Citizenship learning.

This is one of a number of Learning Resources created by the RCHP, which was established to record previously untold stories of refugees who have settled in London since the 1951 United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, to highlight the enormous contributions the refugees make to the city.

Designed to develop an understanding and raise awareness of refugee issues among pupils, the content of this new Learning Resource is free to download and can be easily customised to suit the needs of specific classes. Refugee Stories

Solar Cooking can Drastically Change the Lives of Refugees

by Giselle Trimmer

Close your eyes.

Now imagine you have escaped from the worst forms of violence, you live in the most precarious of conditions and you struggle to feed your family, day by day. Would you not welcome just about anything that would help make your life a bit easier?

For refugees around the globe, this extra help may be found in solar cookers.

How do they work?

It is easy. A solar cooker is a device that changes the light energy of the sun into heat energy to cook food. Although there are several different designs of solar cookers, the following three are the most common types:

Box cookers: These cook at moderate to high temperatures and often accommodate multiple pots. Worldwide, they are the most widespread. There are several hundred thousand in India alone.

Curved concentrator cookers or parabolics: These cook fast at high temperatures, but require frequent adjustment and supervision for safe operation. Several hundred thousand exist, mainly in China. They are especially useful for large-scale institutional cooking. Solar Cooking