Many families in our community still cook over open fires. Smoke in the house is dangerous for obvious reasons. The World Health Organization attributes millions of premature deaths per year to smoke from open cook fires.
spent on medicine, education, or clothing must be spent on firewood. When money is scarce,
people poach firewood from private property. This is illegal and comes with its own set of
dangers.
Better cooking stoves mean three important things:
- no smoke in houses
- less firewood
- better environment
We are stove builders! Through DIDES, we have learned a design for a very efficient stove made of brick, pumice, and a tin chimney. We have built dozens of stoves for people in El Sauce and will continue to build more.
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| Mud made of pumice. This is a view of the fire chamber and it's connection to the tin chimney. |
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| Smoothing the mud |
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| Chimney |
