Overview 2001
Regula Ochsner spent the turn of the year 2000/2001 in Madagascar and was busy with her team - Eduard and Vreni Probst, Adrienne Borsari and Roland Baumann - at very different levels. Among other things, they had to bring a container with the first kits for 500 solar cookers out of customs, run from office to office and hire and train staff.
The first activities included a cooperation agreement with Prof. Daniel Ramanpiherika's local environmental association. For this, a name was needed even before the return to Switzerland and the subsequent planned founding of their own association. This came about in a "nocturnal brainstorming session", as Regula recalls.
Before Regula travelled to Madagascar again in the spring to take care of the purchase of land and to award the building contract for the carpentry workshop, the official foundation of the association was on the agenda. The founding meeting took place on 23 March 2001 "à la maison de Madame Regula Ochsner" as the minutes record. An eight-member board was elected with Regula as president, Adrienne Borsari as vice-president and Ueli Borsari as treasurer. Various members of the Hölstein Solar Cooker Association played an important role in the founding and the first activities on site, including Eduard and Verena Probst and Jürg Wüthrich. They were the first and, for the time being, only three members of the newly founded association. Not present at the meeting was the Malagasy board member Jean Claude Martina. He was responsible for ADES in Toliara at the time.
The purchase of a car for the transport of goods and for demonstrations as well as the shipment of a second container with a Pinzgauer donated by the Swiss military were further highlights in 2001. In addition, Regula notes with regard to the first cooker sales: "The exact recording of the delivered cookers was carried out very conscientiously by Chantal. She provided me with statistics: by 11 April, 92 Sonnenkochers had been sold and 18 given away."
Photos 2001
2001 After the tent, rented a studio in Tuléar2
2001 After the tent, rented a studio in Tuléar1
2001 Germain's table from old bed drawer
2001 Germain with Bread Moulds
2001 Germain, the first carpenter
2001 First solar cooker
2001 First finished cookers
2001 The first board in Madagascar with Chantal
2001 Chantal, the first director and Tsichanana with the first car next to the Pinzgauer
2001_10 Tuléar_A sage blesses the house
2001_10 Tuléar3_A sacrifice must be made to avert evil2
2001_10 Tuléar2_A sacrifice must be made to avert evil1
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach13_Atelier our solution approach
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach12_Studio Forest Clearance
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach11_Atelier Markt
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach10_Atelier Market
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach09_Studio Ritual of the Dead
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach08_Studio Ritual of the Dead
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach07_studio domestic life
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach05_Studio School
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach04_ecumenical service_giving paradise back to Madagascar
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach03_ecumenical service_giving paradise back to Madagascar
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach02_Stand
2001_10_07 Chilbi in Ottenbach01_ Stand
2001_09 Tuléar_Garden of the Guardian
2001_09_ Tuléar3_Ministre de l'enseignement of Tana visits our project
2001_09_ Tuléar2_Ministre de l'enseignement of Tana visits our project
2001_09_ Tuléar1_Ministre de l'enseignement of Tana visits our project
2001_09 Tuléar2_Building progresses
2001_09 Tuléar1_Building progresses
2001_05 Tuléar6_Building start
2001_05 Tuléar5_Building start
2001_05 Tuléar3_Building start
2001_05 Tuléar2_Building start
2001_05 Filming with Daniel Ramamphierika
2001_04 Demonstration at the Gendarmerie2
2001_04 Demonstration at the Gendarmerie1
2001_04 The Propst couple
2001_04 Antaikocky4_Vreni Propst and Roland Baumann answer many questions and take 40 orders for solar cookers
2001_04 Antaikocky3_While the rice is cooking, Vreni and Regula are treating minor wounds.
2001_04 Antaikocky2_Chantal prepares the rice
2001_04 Antaikocky1_Regula and Chantal explain cooking in the sun cooker
2001_04_28 Tuléar_Grundsteinlegung
2001_04_27 Signing of the purchase contract for land in Tuléar
2001_04_25 Tuléar_Land before construction
2001_04_25 Tuléar1_land before construction
2001_03 Birmenstorf_A Village for Madagascar3
2001_03 Birmenstorf_A Village for Madagascar2
2001_03 Birmenstorf_A Village for Madagascar1
2001_02_23 Madagascar Day in Zurich3
2001_02_23 Madagascar Day in Zurich2
2001_02_23 Madagascar Day in Zurich1
2000_12 first cooking demo in Miary, the village where Regula worked 1973-75, with Chantal and Professor Daniel3
2000_12 first cooking demo in Miary, the village where Regula worked 1973-75, with Chantal and Professor Daniel2
2000_12 first cooking demo in Miary, the village where Regula worked 1973-75, with Chantal and Professor Daniel1
2000_12 Chantal and Vreni Probst with the Mayor of Miary
2000_12_29 Workshop under tent roof in Tuléar
2000_12_29 The first solar cooker is created_Eduard Probst, Germain and Naninake in the Prov. studio
2000_12_28 The first container leaves the port
2000_12_28 The container is unloaded in Tuléar
