Energy Saving Wood Stove Kenya

They recently serviced a large order from unhcr.

Energy saving wood stove kenya. We take a user centred approach to the design and development of our. About the three years ago she had discarded the. The business has been operating since 1998 and has large well organised workshops making and assembling the stove components. Thanks to community savings and loaning csl groups however women can now afford more efficient stoves.

The stoves are made in kenya and are provided to families free of charge. Through stoves for life energy efficient cook stove project in kakamega women and youth manufacture efficient ceramic wood burning stoves and sell them in their communities to replace the traditional and inefficient three stone hearth. Traditionally the rural communities of the siaya region of western kenya have cooked on open fires which require huge amounts of firewood. We are a sustainable business that promotes achievable solutions to the most pressing challenges of our times.

Our stoves reduce the health impacts of traditional cookstoves help families save money on fuel and ultimately save one of our planet s most precious commodities. Iday s project market energy saving stoves for 11 schools in kibera slum nairobi country. 14 450 outside assistance. The cookswell line of energy saving cookstoves and ovens was pioneered in kenya by dr.

The stoves provide the families with a cleaner cheaper and easier way of cooking due to the reduction of wood that is need. The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and children. The new stoves reduce the amount of wood fuel needed to cook with thereby reducing carbon emissions. Intractable poverty and climate change.

With the smartsaver charcoal stove i can save 6 50 a week for my family rebecca nairobi kenya i like the new stove because now my pots don t get dirty there are no ashes in my milk it cooks faster and i have more time to spend with my children. The resident of kitui county a semi arid region in eastern kenya only needs a few of the sticks to light her new energy saving cookstove. Social and sustainability benefits. They are based in kiria muranga county in central province north of nairobi.

Riumba ini energy saving stoves is one of ten companies making the new stove. Since the end of the project the kenya ceramic jiko and other designs have become the most successfully adapted improved stoves in africa.