Mission
Solving medical and environmental problems by bringing fuel-efficient Ecocina stoves to the world.Indoor air pollution is one of the leading causes of death of children under five in the world. It kills more children than malaria.
How it all began
When she returned to Eugene, Oregon, she asked her Rotary club, the Southtowne Rotary Club in Eugene, about sponsoring a grant to provide safer, fuel-efficient stoves to the people in Central America. They encouraged her to write the grant proposal, and she not only wrote that grant but went on to apply for grants from Carlos Santana’s Milagro Foundation and Synchronicity Foundation. Those initial grants helped create StoveTeam International, an organization that addresses preventable problems caused by smoky open fires in rural homes. These problems include debilitating upper respiratory, eye and skin diseases, tragic burns and untreated hernias caused by carrying heavy loads of firewood.
The new Ecocina stove! No chimney required.
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