Energy Saving Wood Stove Kenya

The new stoves reduce the amount of wood fuel needed to cook with thereby reducing carbon emissions.

Energy saving wood stove kenya.

Intractable poverty and climate change. This project promotes locally made efficient stoves to help conserve kenya s remaining forests. Since the end of the project the kenya ceramic jiko and other designs have become the most successfully adapted improved stoves in africa. The business has been operating since 1998 and has large well organised workshops making and assembling the stove components.

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. They recently serviced a large order from unhcr. The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and children. Traditionally the rural communities of the siaya region of western kenya have cooked on open fires which require huge amounts of firewood.

Thanks to community savings and loaning csl groups however women can now afford more efficient stoves. 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. Riumba ini energy saving stoves is one of ten companies making the new stove. Locally produced efficient upesi stoves reduce wood consumption in kenya and help to preserve the unique vegetation and biodiversity of kakamega rainforest.

We are a sustainable business that promotes achievable solutions to the most pressing challenges of our times. Iday s project market energy saving stoves for 11 schools in kibera slum nairobi country. 14 450 outside assistance. The stoves are made in kenya and are provided to families free of charge.

Social and sustainability benefits. We take a user centred approach to the design and development of our. The cookswell line of energy saving cookstoves and ovens was pioneered in kenya by dr. 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.

They are based in kiria muranga county in central province north of nairobi. 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.