13th Anniversary of Late Jimmy McGilligan-6th day of the “Sustainable Life” week

Indore
key speaker on the 6th day of the “Sustainable Life” week, of 13 th Anniversary of Jimmy McGilligan , Deepak Gadhia, a world renowned legend  of  solar kitchen manufacturer from Baroda in Gujarat  paid  tribute to his Solar Brother Jimmy McGilligan, recipient of the Most Excellent  Order of the British Empire by the Queen Elizabeth  .Deepak   saluted Jimmy being the   the first  solar  engineer and  builder  of   a large  solar thermal  community Kitchen in the Barli Campus of Indore .He was addressing at the , Serum Nursing College. He said  that  Solar Thermal Coking systems  can not only save  India but the entire world can be saved from the climate crisis if the Government of India wants and takes a decision, from domestic  use to direct pollution to millions of people, solar thermal cooking using sun energy. Giving an example, he told that every day 50 thousand people enjoy food and Prasad made from solar energy in the world's second mega solar kitchen built by him in the famous Shirdi temple in Nashik district of Maharashtra. This state-of-the-art kitchen has also received the National Award for Solar Cooking System because it is pollution free. Deepak  had also installed 73 big Scheffler solar dishes on the roof  there. First of all, he  installed Solar Cookers Brahmakumari Ashram  cooking  food for 20,000 people at Mount Abu . After this, Gadhia also made a small village smoke-free by making a solar kitchen for thousands of people in Tirupati temple and then Muni Seva Ashram, where he lives. Also made a solar kitchen in Kailash Cancer Hospital and made Jimmy McGilligan  his  Solar  Soul Brother  who  equipped tribal girls with training  in   500 villages of Madhya Pradesh  women became free from smoke, violence and diseases with the help of solar cookers. Today, millions of people in polluted cities and villages can be freed from energy crisis and pollution by cooking their food through solar cooking.
The keynote speaker  Padma Shri awardee Janak Palta McGilligan, who has been dedicated to saving the environment through solar cookers, solar kitchens, solar dryers as completely healthy, cheap, beautiful and sustainable energy for almost  last four decades. She told that with her husband Jimmy McGilligan they  established  the  first solar kitchen cooking , working   300 sunny days a year food for 150 in 1997 t is still working efficiently in  2024. It has been saving   900 kg of wood and 9 gas cylinders are every month and no Carbon and absolutely free of cost and no smoke inside 

 India is blessed with abundance of   Solar energy   outside absolutely free, there is no  need to pay bil  clean and green energy  best for health of people and Planet. . Janak Didi has been living in Sanawadiya since her retirement in 2011. Lakhs of people are surprised to see the big dish rotating with the sun in the solar kitchen built by her husband and at her Jimmy McGilligan Centre, 13 types of solar cookers, dryers, solar electricity generated  by  windmills,solar  geysers, computers running and smart, cheap and simple carbon-free  solar energy , no smoke,   no pollution! 
Trees and plants provide pollution-free, pure air and pure food not only to humans but also to the residents of this place, including cows, dogs and hundreds of birds. At Barli Institute in Indore, 6000 girls were trained for sustainable development for more than 500 tribal villages of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Women learned sustainable living for individual, family and society. Became self-reliant in livelihood with solar cooker and dryer  In  Sanawadiya  she also trained many start ups  , became self-reliant through organic farming, solar cooker and dryer even thay have done zerowaste Amarnath Piligimage installed big Solar Termal dishes  ans served n Sustainable langer . Janak Didi said that the women who are capable will have to bring about ideological and practical social change in themselves. It is important to provide economic development training to the needy women with dignity and equality, not by giving them some respect, goods or money. Janak Didi says that being a Bahá'í, sustainable living means, for the love of God, "learning to live in harmony with all living beings for the welfare of the world and to protect them as servants and guardians of the five elements." The most important thing for a sustainable life is sustainable food from organic farming. Our priority is to promote traditional healthy Indian food by growing organic food items obtained from natural resources and using solar cookers and solar dryers.

For the last 39 years, she has been fully engaged in the socio-economic empowerment of rural women by providing training in solar thermal cookers and solar cooking and food processing as well as promoting several start ups. She advocates the importance of solar thermal cookers to meet the Sustainable Development Goals in several national and international and government forums/meetings at the UN and G20 and in India