Following the South East European NGO Seminar for Sustainable Energy in Croatia (see here), NGOs from South East Europe met again in November in Macedonia.
In addition to engaging in political discussions, the group also built a solar heating system. This time it will provide hot water for an orphanage with 100 children.
One of the organisers, Slavjanka Miladinova from the Macdonian ProAktiva (member of INFORSE), sees solar as an important future energy in a country with 250 sunny days per year. Compared with electric heating with coal-based electricity, it is both cheaper and very much cleaner to use solar water heating.

The seminars were organised in cooperation with the Norwegian Association for Nature Protection. The NGOs plan to meet again August-September 2006.

More information:
Web: ProAftiva in Macedonia
Email: slavjanka@proaktiva.org.mk