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August 25, 2008
The entrepreneurial spirit of Las Mujeres Solares has been recognized as they were named recipients of the 2008 award from the SEED (Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development) Initiative. In partnership with the SEED Initiative and the $25,000 award package of expert services, they will be able to expand their small businesses of producing solar cookers, dryers, and dry good products to unimaginable heights. This award recognizes the dedication and passion of Las Mujeres Solares that Salud del Sol staff experienced during the summer of 2008 working collectively for the community development of Sabana Grande de Totogalpa.
Read the press release from the SEED Initiative web site here.
Visit the SEED Initative web site for complete details.
July 9, 2008
July 9, 2008, Managua, Nicaragua
Salud del Sol News
Lori Hanna, Salud del Sol’s Executive Director; Anna Young, Salud del Sol’s Director of Development; and Susan Kinne, Director of Grupo Fenix, met with MINSA, Nicaragua’s Ministry of Health on July 9, 2008 at El Complejo Nacional de Salud (The National Health Complex), named Concepción Palacia, in Managua. Dr. Jorge Orochena S., the Director of Services Organization, from the Health Services Department, and the team met for an hour. Dr. Orochena gave his blessings and endorsed the continuance of the Salud del Sol autoclave project.
In addition to this important step of gaining permission from the National Government, the meeting involved useful knowledge sharing. The team gathered other valuable statistical data on the clinics throughout Nicaragua. After the team’s technical explanation of the autoclave and it’s workings, Dr. Orochena praised the idea for its utility in health clinics without electricity—the great majority of the clinics in the country. He is only aware of about 10 of 935 clinics that do not have good access to direct sunlight. He readily acknowledged the environmental benefits of such a device and discussed ideas for the device itself, including the importance of an alarm or other method to verify sterilization.
June 25, 2008
By Kris Berggren, National Catholic Reporter, NCRonline.org
Cover Story Published: May 30, 2008
You might call University of Dayton senior Lori Hanna an accidental entrepreneur. The mechanical engineering major recently won the $10,000 top award in the University of Dayton’s business plan competition for her project to build portable solar-powered medical equipment sterilizers.
Her project has blossomed into a nonprofit technology assistance company, Salud del Sol, whose first business, producing a sun-powered medical sterilization device, could be a tremendous boon to health-care providers in remote rural communities.
“I’ve never worked with anything business-related before,” said Hanna. “It has gotten so much bigger than I thought it would be, but it’s so exciting.”
Pictured above: Lori Hanna roasts coffee beans with her host sister, Vanessa, in Sabana Grande, Nicaragua.
June 17, 2008
By Diana Rosetti, CantonRep.com
Leaving for college, Lori Hanna had a focus on math and science along with a desire to make a difference in the world.
Less than four years later, that trio of interests coalesced into the Wadsworth native’s refinement of a solar-powered autoclave providing a way for third-world communities lacking electricity to sterilize surgical instruments. The development will allow rural surgeons with limited surgical tools to perform more operations instead of turning away the needy for want of sterile equipment.
June 2, 2008
Salud del Sol News
June 2, 2008 – Lori Hanna, Executive Director of Salud del Sol, presented the solar autoclave project at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Atlanta, Georgia. The solar autoclave project was a Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation CASE grant winner in January 2008 (see ServiceBook.org). Four such winners were invited to present during the conference’s second session on Monday, “University-Community Partnerships: A mutually beneficial alliance for students and community” at The Carter Center, moderated by Dr. Sue Sehgal, Foundation president and founder. See the link below for more information on the conference.
While there, each of the four students’ videos were presented (view Lori’s YouTube Video), followed by a short update by each student and a question and answer session. The presentations, questions, and answers were incredibly energetic, and many people are interested in the possibilities of cooperation between universities and communities. The opportunity helped to expand the network of Salud del Sol, as business and personal information was exchanged with many groups interested in helping with or learning from the evolution of the autoclave project. Visit the link below for more information on the CASE grants, service learning, and the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation.
April 21, 2008
Monday Briefing, The Columbus Dispatch
April 21, 2008 – A University of Dayton team that includes a student from central Ohio has taken first prize in a business-plan competition at the school. The winning team is made up of Anna Young of Westerville, Lauren Dokes of Huber Heights, Lori Hanna of Wadsworth and Daniel Hensel of Hudson.
April 18, 2008
By Stephanie Vermillion, Staff Writer, Flyer News
April 18, 2008 – A group of four UD seniors received first place in the 2008 UD Business Plan Competition with an invention that makes sterilizing medical equipment more feasible for less fortunate countries using the least expensive resource: the sun. Lori Hanna, an engineering major, developed the idea to use a solar cooker to clean medical tools during her 2006 volunteer internship with ETHOS, Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-learning.
April 16, 2008
By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer, Dayton Daily News
April 16, 2008 – Give Lauren Dokes, Lori Hanna, Daniel Hensel and Anna Young a bit of sunlight and they will help build communities — and perhaps save lives. The four University of Dayton students won the 2008 UD Business Plan Competition, presenting a relatively easy way to use solar cookers to sterilize medical instruments. Their prize: $10,000 — and perhaps years of work to get the plan up and running.
April 4, 2008
Staff Report, Dayton Daily News
April 4, 2008 – A bright idea won the 2008 University of Dayton Business Plan competition. Salud del Sol, a business created by UD students, seeks to bring the “health of the sun” to medical treatment in developing countries, UD said in announcement. The winning team is Lauren Dokes, Lori Hanna, Daniel Hensel and Anna Young.
April 3, 2008
The winning idea in the 2007 University of Dayton Business Plan Competition could save lives and create jobs in developing countries. (University of Dayton News)
April 3, 2008 – Salud del Sol, an innovative new business from a team of University of Dayton students aimed at bringing the “health of the sun” to medical treatment in developing countries, took home a $10,000 first prize to help get the venture off the ground.
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