Energy Saving Wood Stove Kenya

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Energy saving wood stove kenya.

The stoves provide the families with a cleaner cheaper and easier way of cooking due to the reduction of wood that is need. Social and sustainability benefits. Locally produced efficient upesi stoves reduce wood consumption in kenya and help to preserve the unique vegetation and biodiversity of kakamega rainforest. Intractable poverty and climate change.

The cookswell line of energy saving cookstoves and ovens was pioneered in kenya by dr. Traditionally the rural communities of the siaya region of western kenya have cooked on open fires which require huge amounts of firewood. 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. The stoves are made in kenya and are provided to families free of charge.

We take a user centred approach to the design and development of our. Maxwell kinyanjui in 1982 under a ministry of energy project to develop a cookstove that would reduce charcoal use by 50. Thanks to community savings and loaning csl groups however women can now afford more efficient stoves. Iday s project market energy saving stoves for 11 schools in kibera slum nairobi country.

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. This project promotes locally made efficient stoves to help conserve kenya s remaining forests. The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and children. 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. They recently serviced a large order from unhcr. 14 450 outside assistance. The business has been operating since 1998 and has large well organised workshops making and assembling the stove components.

The new stoves reduce the amount of wood fuel needed to cook with thereby reducing carbon emissions. They are based in kiria muranga county in central province north of nairobi.