Almost 2 billion people use collected wood or use purchased charcoal for domestic cooking. The current cooking methods in parts of central Kenya are contributing to the growing deforestation rate and resulting in negative health impacts attributed to indoor air pollution affecting women and children. Over 4 million people have died prematurely from indoor air pollution caused by cooking with solid fuels in 2012. This has resulted in a growing need for clean, high quality, affordable cooking solutions.
EnSo Impact is working with @cquest_capital to deliver the installation of improved cookstoves across 10,000 households to replace three‐stone‐fire cookstoves in low-income households during 2020‐2021. The project also includes an option for households to purchase a Jet-Flame cookstove accessory that improves combustion at a subsidised cost.
The improved cookstoves dramatically reduce smoke from cooking as well as saving fuel – installation is included as well as a maintenance review in one year’s time Working with the Kenyan Tea Development Agency, our team will be focused on low-income farming families. The new stoves have many benefits including
This project is being carried out in 2 phases:
Phase I is the provision of clean cooking services to 5,000 households comprised of two stoves per household.
Phase II of an additional 5,000 households with two stoves per household is to follow.
