Energy Saving Wood Stove Kenya

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.

Energy saving wood stove kenya.

The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and 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. Locally produced efficient upesi stoves reduce wood consumption in kenya and help to preserve the unique vegetation and biodiversity of kakamega rainforest. This project promotes locally made efficient stoves to help conserve kenya s remaining forests.

They recently serviced a large order from unhcr. Iday s project market energy saving stoves for 11 schools in kibera slum nairobi country. About the three years ago she had discarded the. Maxwell kinyanjui in 1982 under a ministry of energy project to develop a cookstove that would reduce charcoal use by 50.

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. Intractable poverty and climate change. The business has been operating since 1998 and has large well organised workshops making and assembling the stove components. 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.

They are based in kiria muranga county in central province north of nairobi. Thanks to community savings and loaning csl groups however women can now afford more efficient stoves. We take a user centred approach to the design and development of our. We are a sustainable business that promotes achievable solutions to the most pressing challenges of our times.

The stoves are made in kenya and are provided to families free of charge. Riumba ini energy saving stoves is one of ten companies making the new stove. Social and sustainability benefits. 14 450 outside assistance.

Traditionally the rural communities of the siaya region of western kenya have cooked on open fires which require huge amounts of firewood. Since the end of the project the kenya ceramic jiko and other designs have become the most successfully adapted improved stoves in africa.