› Home › About Self Help › Contact Us › Current Projects Burkina Faso Ethiopia Eritrea Ghana Kenya Malawi Togo Uganda Zambia › Activities in Ireland › Activities in UK Events Calendar › Technologies › Case Studies › History 20 Year Highlights › How You Can Help What Your Money is Doing Regular Giving Fund-Raising Suggestions One Click Donation Corporate Seed Fund Farmers Grow Fund Volunteering Tax Relief on Donations › Fund-Raising Field Visits 2007 Kenya 2006 Eritrea 2005 -Kenya-Uganda-Malawi 2001-2004 From the Archives › Africa Alive Schools Programme Recent School News School Visits Curriculum Publications Student & Teacher Impressions Pictures Download Young Scientists Exhibition School Profiles (coming soon) › Exhibitions Africa Framed Value of Rubbish › Testimonials › Media Centre Press Releases Articles on Self Help Activities Related Topics › Reports / Studies › Useful Links › Glossary of Terms › Secure Page › Recruitment › Forum Fuel Efficient Cooking Technologies › Fuel Efficient Cooking The need of families in rural sub-Saharan Africa to use wood for all their cooking needs has resulted in widespread deforestation and depletion of natural resources in many of the countries where Self Help Development International is working. In an effort to respond to what has in many instances become a pressing environmental crisis, Self Help promotes a range of improved cooking stoves which are being made available to rural families in its project areas. Although the stove designs differ between Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia and Eritrea, the principal of the improved stoves is the same – they use less fuel to generate similar heat, and also burn with less smoke – making for a cleaner and healthier cooking environment in the home. In Ethiopia, Eritrea and Malawi the improved wood burning cookers are being produced for sale by small womens co-operatives and business groups, and are sold by them as an income generating enterprise for participating members. ‘In rural communities which do not have access to electricity or other sources of power to produce their meals, wood and charcoal is being used to generate heat for cooking. The improved stoves which we are promoting burn more efficiently and thus use less wood’, explains Ethiopian project manager Hailu Gebre Mariam. In a further bid to combat the problem of deforestation, Self Help also promotes the propogation of community and homestead woodlots, to ensure that rural people have future wood stocks to meet their cooking and home needs. Related Topics          Home Page          ›› Approaches & Technologies                   Case Studies          ›› Small scale irrigation ›› Soloki Water ›› A Soldier's Story ›› Buee SACCO                                          Self Help Development International Hacketstown, Co. Carlow, Ireland Tel: 00 353 (0)59 6471175 - Fax: 00 353 (0)59 6471292 We welcome your comments: info@selfhelp.ie Powered by: go2web