From Clay to Health
More than 3.5 million beneficiaries of locally-made energy efficient cookstoves in Africa
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One of the world’s worst problems is one of the easiest to help solve — and you can help.
Inefficient stove technologies contribute to deforestation and forest degradation, unsafe conditions in the home, soil erosion, and contribute to the death of 2 million infants each year due to indoor wood-smoke inhalation. Besides that, reduced need for biomass reduces allows women to dedicate their time to other activities as childcare and income generation.
The New Hestian Project’s improved cookstoves and fuel efficiency projects in Southern Africa directly reduce indoor cooking smoke – one of the leading causes of acute respiratory infections and the top killer of young children worldwide.
The New Hestian Project creation and first implementation in Malawi
Expansion of implementation in Rwanda and carbon certification under the Gold Standard
What people are saying
I pay school fees for my child in secondary school. When we use the Chitetezo stove, we save the environment.
Once you are sick, you can move the Chitetezo stove and put it nearby.
It is portable and it can be used to keep you warm.
If this village can plant 10 trees and prune 5 trees, the whole village can use the wood for one month, as the wood required for a Chitetezo Mbaula is not a lot.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
The New Hestian Project is an initiative that was born with the will of increasing transparency and benefit-sharing across social development projects.