"After all, what good is Freedom if you have no heat, power, or cooked food - you can't eat it."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19458575/

COIN application:
solar cookers, cardboard/wood/metal boxes lined with tinfoil
hand out a few of them, demonstrate how they work
provide some tin foil, they can make/find the boxes
tell the people " we are working hard with your government to get you electricity to cook with but at least you can have hot meals with these until the electricity arrives - Allah gives the Sun, man makes electricity, be patient please" have female personnel demonstrate/distribute to the women. It will save the people time and money hustling up alternative cooking/heat sources

What have you got to lose? A few hundred rolls of tinfoil and a few hours spent directly with the people?