WOMEN'S PROGRAMME
Promotes cook stoves that reduce
fuel wood consumption and improve living conditions for
women and children.
We are working to
improve efficiency, safety and healthiness of domestic
wood energy use, in urban & rural households
dependant on wood fires for cooking. We promote the use
of affordable, locally produced stoves that use less
wood, cook more quickly and make less smoke than open
fires.
The need to collect and
carry less wood reduces the gruelling workload of
rural women and children, and releases money for
other basic needs like education, healthcare and
food, in urban households that buy fuel wood.
The stoves
expose users to less heat and smoke than available
alternatives, reducing burns, skin, eye and lung
problems.
We teach
local potters how to manufacture the stoves, boosting
their income generation, >400 have been distributed,
in four provinces - sold to those with means, subsidised
or free to those unable to pay.