This project consists of providing improved/rocket stoves and green charcoal to 150 displaced women and refugees from wars and natural disasters for cooking food in the context of the crises in the east of the DR Congo. A rapid response to prevent violence, pneumonia, etc. This project also aims to supervise and initiate these women affected by crises in planting trees, manufacturing rocket stoves and briquettes/green charcoal for their socio-economic empowerment and mitigate climate change.
Since May 2023, the Congolese Government has relocated 100,000 households after a disaster (landslide and floods) causing the loss of property and lives of 5,000 people in the Kalehe territory. Although humanitarian actors provide aid, affected women struggle to prepare their food using plastics and worn shoes with the risk of catching pneumonic diseases and also risk sexual or community violence in search of fuel. This project aims to provide 200 women with improved stoves for clean cooking.
COVIAC provides improved stoves and green charcoal to vulnerable women. Women are trained in the manufacture of improved stoves and green charcoal/ecological briquettes for their empowerment. Women are introduced to planting trees for climate resilience. The women will also share their knowledge with other victims. COVIAC will also raise awareness among other humanitarian actors about access to energy in the humanitarian context.
This project will solve the problem of lack of access to clean energy for cooking food in the context of crisis for 200 women. Through this project, women will be protected against possible sexual and community violence when they look for fuel for cooking food. Lacking fuel, women use plastic bottles and worn shoes producing fumes harmful to lung health. This project will provide clean, non-polluting coal fuels using improved fuel-efficient and resilient stoves to improve family well-being.
