The year 2019 appears to have been a particularly international one:
Three football-loving men travel from Poland who, together with their club, have collected a whole lot of football items for Madagascar - from balls and shoes to jerseys and gauntlets.
Josh Martin, who visited the ADES centre in Toliara during a guided tour of Madagascar and was so enthusiastic that he has since supported ADES in fundraising on a voluntary basis from his home country, contacted us from the USA.
An invitation arrives from Hamburg to attend the "Rotary Convention", the annual congress of Rotary International, where ADES can present its project and make interesting contacts.
And as always, ADES is also active in Switzerland with stand campaigns from Affoltern to Zurich to Winterthur and lectures from Hünenberg to Mutschellen.

Meanwhile, in Madagascar, two major projects are taking shape - literally:
A second kiln is being built in Fianarantsoa to drive the expansion decided by the board. This will steadily increase production so that ADES can produce and sell at least 75 000 cookers per year from 2025 (compared to 45 000 in 2019). This project also includes the acquisition of two additional mobile centres.
Since December 2018, ADES has also been designing modular cooking systems for eight selected schools of the aid organisation Bel Avenir with the project "Innovation Gossküchen". After completion of the project phase planned for March 2021, the findings are to be implemented in other large kitchens of schools, hospitals and other businesses.

Reforestation is also progressing well. Various documents mention projects in Ankazobe, Zazamalala and Ejeda, among others. Regarding Ankazobe, ADES forestry specialist Dr Axel Brückmann explains: "It is worthwhile to defy the fire here and to preserve values and ecosystems with fire-resistant trees such as eucalyptus or, in some cases, pines, or even to create new ones.

• Annual Report 2019
• Cover Letter Annual Report
• Vaovao 1/2019
• Flyer Hünenberg
• Presentation Hünenberg
• Short presentation ADES
• Easter letter
• Position paper
• Presentation Josh, USA
• Presentation General Assembly
• RC Hamburg exhibition walls
• Vaovao 2/2019
• Bulletin 2019-1
• Plan Watterfäscht
• Vaovao Special 3/2019
• Bulletin 2019-2
• Activity plan 2019
• Christmas letter

• 09.10.2019: Bulletin Rotary Club Zugerland
  Fireworks to contain fires (PDF)
• 08.2019: Solarspar Magazine
  1 energy-saving cooker = 520 h less electricity collection (PDF)
• 08.19: ONE - Employee magazine of the Lufthansa Group
  CO₂ compensation finances more efficient stoves in Madagascar, p. 44 (PDF EN), (PDF EN)
• 08.08.2019: Tages Anzeiger
  Who benefits from the Greta effect (PDF)
• 07.19: Rotary News
  Climate-friendly cooking (JPG)
• 21.06.19: Affolter Anzeiger
  ADES remains on course for success (PDF)
• 14.06.19: Affolter Anzeiger
  Support for ADES (PDF)
• 15.03.19: Swiss Illustrated
  We introduce 15 Swiss climate saviours (Link)
• 13.03.19: View
  Good for the planet or just for the conscience? (Link)
• 12.03.19: Tagesschau, Ticino Television RSI
  Emission savings through climate compensation (Link)