ADES is an NGO and a non-profit organization that produces solar cookers
in Madagascar and supports the use of renewable energy sources. It started
in Tuléar in the south of Madagascar in 2001. Local production by local
people with local material is part of the ADES philosophy.
Dr. Heinz Vetter is a member of the managing honorary committee of ADES
in Switzerland since 2004 and the Co-President since June 2006, with Regula
Ochnser, the initiator of ADES. He is convinced that the unique biodiversity
of Madagascar has to be preserved and that deforestation and poverty there
have to be stopped. The solar cooker is a contribution to that.