Smoke from open cooking fires kills more than eight times as many people as malaria. Daily cooking is the equivalent to mothers and children smoking three packs of cigarettes a day.
Collecting 50 pounds of wood per day results in deforestation and the loss of employment opportunities.
A safe, clean-burning stove that reduces smoke and carbon emissions. The savings in firewood pays for the stove in a few months.
In Latin America, a stove factory provides jobs and a sense of purpose. In areas of high unemployment, a job can mean survival for the whole family.
Four million burns are reported annually and smoke is the leading cause of death in children under five.
Your generosity will help save lives and forests. Just $50 purchases a stove for a family in need.
StoveTeam has helped local entrepreneurs establish factories in five countries in Latin America. These self-sustaining businesses produce safe, affordable, fuel-efficient cookstoves to replace dangerous open cooking fires. Ecocina factories have produced more than 37,000 stoves, improving the lives of more than 280,000 people.
StoveTeam's model has been awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Award for Developing Local Markets for our innovative approach creating local employment while improving health and reducing air pollution.
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