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'''Solar Alternatives and Associated Programmes''' (SAAP) is a nonprofit organization in the [[India]]n state of [[Bihar]] that produces solar devices, to save trees and to provide a dependable energy supply. Founded in 1996 by [[Jesuit]] Fr. M.M. Mathew, SAAP uses the “solar bridge” technology developed in [[Germany]] by [[Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)|Wolfgang Scheffler]]. SAAP has filled orders for various applications of this technology in eighteen states across India.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/bringing-sunshine-to-their-lives/story-yeCTot3FlJmQQzBgz2jRtO.html|title=Bringing sunshine to their lives|last=|first=|date=2009-11-29|newspaper=|access-date=2017-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913174148/http://www.hindustantimes.com/patna/bringing-sunshine-to-their-lives/story-yeCTot3FlJmQQzBgz2jRtO.html|archive-date=2016-09-13|dead-url=no|work=|language=en|via=|df=}}</ref>

==Beginnings and purpose==

M.M. Mathew developed an interest in solar energy while working with the student forum on the environment [[Tarumitra]] ("Friends of Trees").<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Sunshine+man/1/78206.html|title=Sunshine man|access-date=2017-02-21|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818102656/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Sunshine+man/1/78206.html|archivedate=2016-08-18|df=}}</ref> He went on to [[Gujarat]] in early 1996 to study renewable energy under [[Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)|Wolfgang Scheffler]], the inventor of the solar concentrated Scheffler community cooker. Mathew then, with the support of the Patna Jesuits, founded a solar manufacturing unit at St. Mary's church compound in [[Patna]]. The [[Ministry of New and Renewable Energy|Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources]] (MNES) approved this venture for use countrywide, and engineers from [[Germany]] and [[Switzerland]] assisted.<ref name=tribune/>