At the beginning of the year, Madagascar's newly elected government is overthrown. The country slides into a major political and economic crisis. Around 75 % of the Malagasy state's income comes from foreign funds. This money does not flow for months. Tourism, the second major source of income, is also collapsing. In the annual report, Otto Frei writes, among other things: "It is difficult to promote the cause of nature conservation in an area where people do not even have the basic necessities for survival." This is compounded by staff unrest at the Toliara farm. Those responsible see themselves forced to close the centre for four months before it resumes with partly new staff and full vigour.

There are also many changes in Switzerland. Due to the heavy workload, Regina Gloor and Co-President Heinz Vetter are resigning from the Board. Walter Scherrer and Jörg Baumann join as new members. Regula Ochsner, meanwhile, is quitting her job as a couples and family therapist and will act as ADES Executive Director from autumn, continuing to do a third of her work on a voluntary basis.

However, the year 2009 stands not only for unrest and restructuring, but also for development: the first prototype of today's energy-saving cooker "OLI" passes its baptism of fire at the end of the year after months of tinkering. How and why this came about and where the cooker got its name can be found in the document "A Madagascan fairy tale" and in the annual report.

The "1000 solar cookers for Tuléar" campaign, which the Rotarians from the Zurich Oberland brought about in cooperation with Rotary International and whose implementation began with the distribution of the first 95 solar cookers in December, is also gratifying.

• Annual Report 2009
• Presentation Succulent Collection
• Rapport and Accord de Siège
• Minutes 4th General Assembly
• Afro Pentecost Winterthur
• Expectations of board members
• Presentation ADES
• Restart
• Report November
• Headstand for the climate
• Start Rotary Project
• Activities 2009
• A Malagasy Fairy Tale

• 12.12.09: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  Homemade climate policy (read pdf)
• 12.12.09: Art for tropical forests
  Solar cooker Madagascar (read pdf)
• 01.12.09: Yves Rocher
  Déliberations Jury International 2010 (fr) (read pdf)
• 01.09.09: Rotary Suisse Liechtenstein
  More and more Madegasses cook with the sun (read pdf)
• 08/04/09: WWF For a living planet
  Solar Cookers Protect Forests (read pdf)
• 08.09: A. Vogel
  Cooking with solar power (read pdf)
• 07.09: Charity Newsletter No. 2
  Cooking with solar energy in Madagascar (read pdf)
• 01.06.09: Kriens helps people in need
  Well-attended General Assembly (read pdf)
• 06.09: Africa Link
  Solidarity Award for Regula Ochsner (read pdf)
• 30.05.09: Afro Whitsun
  ADES brings sunshine into the cooking pot (read pdf)
• 01.04.09: Terra fair
  Clear as daylight, the solar cooker makes sense (read pdf)
• 04.09: Exclusive Kluspark Kriens
  ADES thanks the Kluspark (read pdf)
• 05.03.09 Yves Rochers
  Rencontres (read pdf)
• 04.03.09 Dîner Conference
  Madagascar R. Ochsner & R. Ramiandrisoa (read pdf)
• 01.03.09 Mirror Unterstrass
  Well-deserved honour for Regula Ochsner (read pdf)
• 01.09: Zurich 2
  10 families receive a solar cooker (read pdf)