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Overview 2019 The year 2019 seems to have been a particularly international one: From Poland, three football-mad men arrive who, together with their club, have collected a whole host of football items for Madagascar - from balls and shoes to jerseys and gauntlets. From the USA comes Josh Martin, who, during a guided

Overview 2018 At the General Assembly, Ueli Borsari hands over the presidency to the previous Executive Director Regula Ochsner after nine years in office. In a review of the previous year, he explained to the more than 50 people present that 2017 had been a pleasing and financially very successful year and that the first mobile centre had proved to be a success.

Overview 2017 "After a good two and a half years of intensive leadership work as Directrice Nationale, Isabelle Marthaler-Marty wrote her last national report for ADES at the end of April 2017". In Bulletin 2017-1, this sentence is followed by a mention of her services and the fact that Kerstin Güthler is taking over her post. The topic of both bulletins is the new and first mobile centre of

Overview 2016 "Incredible things have happened in 15 years. While we started in Madagascar in 2001 in a tent with the simplest work and structured the first processes, today our eight ADES centres are working at a top level," is how the 2016 activity report begins. The anniversary celebration in Switzerland starts on 25 September with 95 invited guests at the Stadtgärtnerei

Overview 2015 Of the reports from the various ADES centres, three seem particularly worth mentioning. "Toliara experienced a real cultural change: all production workers now wear safety glasses, ear protection and safety shoes. [...] We collect metal waste in containers and recycle it." ADES now produces the green casing of the energy-saving cooker entirely in-house; imports

Overview 2014 After seven years working for ADES in Madagascar, Otto and Lisa Frei are returning to Switzerland at the beginning of the year. From September, Isabelle Marthaler-Marty will take over as coordinator after a difficult transition phase. Since she has been living in Madagascar since 2012, where she and her husband run a technical vocational school in

Overview 2013 ADES buys land in Fianarantsoa at the end of April. Already in mid-July, a building begins to grow on it without the use of large machines, but with a lot of manual labour. Five months later, ADES inaugurates a new factory with the largest celebration of its kind to date, which at a stroke increases OLI's production capacity.

Overview 2012 Bulletin 2/2012 stands out with the title "Already over 15,000 energy-saving stoves produced". It goes on to say: "After two years of development, the OLI energy-saving stoves are now a huge success and very popular. No wonder, since they reduce wood or coal consumption by more than 50 %." The great demand leads

Overview 2011 ADES continues to grow and opens a fifth ADES centre: "While our activities were previously limited to the south and southwest of the island, we are now expanding them to the northwest with the addition of Mahajanga, the third largest city in the country," the annual report states. At the end of the year, ADES had 19 additional

Overview 2010 "Thanks to the Grand Prize of the Brandenberger Foundation, for the first time in our 10-year history, we on the ADES Board had noticeably fewer worries about funding. The award ceremony was certainly the highlight of the ADES year in Switzerland." These lines come from the 2010 annual report. The prize was endowed with CHF 200 000. At the same time, ADES won the