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2 July 2026: Mada Msakatiza and McSanta Mkoweka of Africa Sun Power demonstrate the new cooker system design to the Chairwomen of the village shop network. This new systems uses multiple 150W 24V panels connected directly to the DC electric pressure cooker without need for a costly voltage converter.

24 May 2026: Robert Van Buskirk announces the creation of African Sun Power Ltd (AFSP) in his Friends and Family letter. AFSP Chief Operating Officer McSanta Mkoweka is shown above describing AFSP products to the Chairwomen of the Village Shops in a meeting at JB12 on 2 July 2026.

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1 November 2025: Robert Van Buskirk and the Kachione/AS4V team issue their latest progress report to MECS at University of Loughborough and then respond to MECS thoughtful questions: See: Bridging the Affordabilty Gap for Off-Grid e-Cooking in rural Malawi

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18 December 2025: We issue our latest solar irrigation pump research results based on 136 interviews of randomly selected pump users, showing that one donor dollar generates $28 of dry season harvest income! See: Solar Irrigation Pumps' Quantified Benefits to Smallholder Farmers

23 October 2025: Our Executive Director Montfort Kalulu, helping in the ongoing Solar Irrigation Pump performance tests.

17 October 2025: Hope Chisale our Operations Manager went out to Mchinji to Visit some of the cooker users.

17-22 June 2025: Thirteen technicians from eleven village solar shops across Malawi gather at the JB12 workshop in Blantyre to learn from Gilbert Robert (Kachione Workshop Chief Technician) how to repair the solar irrigation pumps. Quick repairs are critical during the dry season so the solar pump customers do not lose their crops. See: Solar Pump Repair Technicians' Workshop