Country: Nigeria
Organization (running the project)
Duration
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
Contact Information
Email:
ikponkenkanta@yahoo.com
Business phone:
+234(0)8067596435
Goals
-Educate rural communities and school children on the importance of using biomass stoves.
-Promote sustainable cooking energy usage.
-Save cooking time as the stove cooks faster than the conventional firewood cooking system.
-Reduce cooking stress.
-Promote cooking system with less smoke.
-Introduce portable firewood or charcoal cooking system.
Background
The project is about community education on the importance/need for the usage of biomass stoves (Green Fire Stoves). Green Fire stoves are produced by StoveTec at Aprovecho Research Center, Oregon, USA. Through PCIA the organisation got in contact with StoveTec and Kadsol Ltd, a marketing company in Nigeria. The Tropical Research and Conservation Centre is a private organization that focuses mostly on the following areas: Agriculture, Environment and Community Health/Livelihood. The Tropical Research and Conservation Centre is one of the organisations that is facilitating the usage of these stoves in Nigeria through community workshops and introducing the stoves to individuals.
Expected Outcome
-Better livelihoods of rural communities through good cooking practices.
-Reduces some risks associated with open fire cooking.
-Saves firewood hence saves income and also helps in reducing the rate of deforestation.
-Cooks with reduced smoke compared to the conventional way of cooking with firewood.
-Reduces cooking stress.
-Ensures healthy livelihoods, with reduction in the rate of cooking related illness.
Status
ongoing