By Diana Richardson | Executive Director
After years of drought heavy rains continue to pummel the Makindu region, damaging homes and displacing hundreds. With many households now destroyed and belongings washed away, the Children's Centre finds itself feeding and servicing dozens more children and their extended families on a daily and weekly basis. Our two dilapidated cookstoves are limping along, but firewood to fuel them is becoming more scarce in the rains. These old stoves are terribly inefficient. The new stoves, which will require only 2 kg of firewood to fuel the stove for two hours, boils 30 litres of water in 30 minutes and reduces emissions by 90%. Makindu will save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in fuel costs over the long term as firewood is already expensive and becoming harder to find. In the short term, the new stoves will pay for themselves in a matter of months.
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