Cooking on more efficient clay stoves

The need for our project is greater than ever but sadly it got off to a very slow start. There is global concern about the climate and at Tiko where people depend directly on producing and cooking their food, the effects on life are already very real. People cannot survive without cooking their food.

Traditionally that means using three tree trunks or exceptionally large branches on wood fires, while our environmentally friendly mud stoves efficiently use small twigs and branches. There are few trees left in Katete District and alas, now there is no firewood on sale in the markets, so people use charcoal, which contributes even more to climate change, and has sky-rocketed in price.

More than ever, it is essential to plant fast growing firewood trees, so in addition to our schoolgirl group, we will distribute the tree seeds we have just received to people who agree to plant them and care for them and who cook on mud stoves not on open fires. We need to provide as many mud stoves as possible in order to make the best possible use of any fuel that is available.

Also, our mud stove versions should be long lasting and therefore need a roof against the even heavier than usual rain falls. Those roofs also need to be built in such a way, that enough air takes the smoke away and nothing catches fire easily.

Please, help us get these girls outside kitchens with clay-stoves at their homes, so they will be ambassadors for the only acceptable method of cooking.

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