{"id":18139,"key":"Salud_del_Sol","title":"Salud del Sol","latest":{"id":1258050,"timestamp":"2026-07-29T10:26:15Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Flag of Nicaragua.svg|thumb]]\n\n{{Organization data\n| website = http://web.archive.org/web/20180624033943/http://saluddelsol.org:80/\n| location = Nicaragua\n}}\n\nTo provide communities in Nicaragua with the opportunity to improve their own healthcare systems while supporting [[sustainable development]] that creates jobs for members of these communities.\n\nWe believe at the cross section of healthcare, entrepreneurship, and [[renewable energy]] there is an opportunity. This is our way of showing others how to take advantage of this opportunity and to harness sunshine for sustainable business and better health.\n\nIn pursuit of our mission, we have the incredible opportunity to partner with Grupo Fenix and Las Mujeres Solares in Nicaragua and the University of Dayton ETHOS program and School of Business Administration in the United States. As 2009 promises to be a great year for Salud del Sol, we are keeping ourselves focused on our mission through the following objectives:\n\nSupport the development of a solar powered production center in Sabana Grande de Totogalpa, Nicaragua for manufacturing solar autoclaves.\n\nDevelop domestic and international outreach programs for Salud del Sol to increase public awareness.\n\nComplete the solar autoclave product design for release into rural communities in Nicaragua.\n\nCreate a marketing strategy for the solar autoclave to be implemented in Nicaraguan clinics.\n\nContinue to develop the organizational capacities of Salud del Sol.\n\n== About ==\n\nSalud del Sol was founded by four students from the University of Dayton. After researching solar autoclaves, the company was formed as a way to expand this and other similar renewable energy, health-related technologies. We have backgrounds in both business and engineering, making us able to tackle diverse problems. Our multi-discipline, flexible approach helps people meet their own needs.\n\nAs an appropriate technology company, we bring multiple skills to assist our partners with their development needs. Salud del Sol conducts research and development, acts as custodian for intellectual property, secures funding through donations and grants, does market analysis and development, and provides other advice and assistance for long-term sustainability of small businesses in [[poverty]] stricken areas.\n\nWe are in the process of applying to the IRS for non-profit status as a 501(c)(3) organization.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Appropriate technology organizations, Sustainability organizations, Solar, healthcare, entrepreneurship, renewable energy\n| sdg = SDG07 Affordable and clean energy, SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities\n| description = In Nicaragua, Salud del Sol brings solar power to health centers. Appropedia shares how clean energy supports care and entrepreneurship in rural regions.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Appropriate technology organizations]]\n[[Category:Sustainability organizations]]\n[[Category:Solar]]\n[[Category:Renewable energy]]"}