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A. Zeer pot fridge
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How a clay pot refrigerator can help beat hunger
In hot climates, food doesn’t stay fresh for long.

Tomatoes go off in just two days.

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After four days carrots and okra are rotten. With no means of preserving their crops, poverty-stricken families have been battling hunger and even famine.
One ingenious solution is the zeer pot. Using this simple technology, the same vegetable can last for up to 20 days.

This all natural refrigerator offers families, who already succeed in food production, their right to food preservation and really can help to improve their everyday lives; for now and for the future.

A simple technology that brings fresh hope
The zeer pot is a simple fridge made of local materials.

It consists of one earthenware [or metal]pot set inside a larger earthenware clay pot