Energy Saving Wood Stove Kenya

We take a user centred approach to the design and development of our.

Energy saving wood stove kenya. Riumba ini energy saving stoves is one of ten companies making the new stove. The cookswell line of energy saving cookstoves and ovens was pioneered in kenya by dr. About the three years ago she had discarded the. The new stoves reduce the amount of wood fuel needed to cook with thereby reducing carbon emissions.

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. 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. The stoves are made in kenya and are provided to families free of charge. Since the end of the project the kenya ceramic jiko and other designs have become the most successfully adapted improved stoves in africa.

Thanks to community savings and loaning csl groups however women can now afford more efficient stoves. They are based in kiria muranga county in central province north of nairobi. 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 stoves provide the families with a cleaner cheaper and easier way of cooking due to the reduction of wood that is need.

This project promotes locally made efficient stoves to help conserve kenya s remaining forests. Traditionally the rural communities of the siaya region of western kenya have cooked on open fires which require huge amounts of firewood. Locally produced efficient upesi stoves reduce wood consumption in kenya and help to preserve the unique vegetation and biodiversity of kakamega rainforest. Iday s project market energy saving stoves for 11 schools in kibera slum nairobi country.

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 business has been operating since 1998 and has large well organised workshops making and assembling the stove components. The stoves have a cleaner burning process and thus decrease indoor air pollution and associated acute respiratory infections in women and children. Maxwell kinyanjui in 1982 under a ministry of energy project to develop a cookstove that would reduce charcoal use by 50.

Social and sustainability benefits. They recently serviced a large order from unhcr.