By Francis Mbewe | Project Leader
In rural Malawi, cooking is hurting the cook.
Every day, mothers bend over open three-stone fires inside small kitchens. The smoke burns their eyes, fills their lungs, and makes their children cough through the night. To keep the fire going, women and girls walk for hours to collect firewood, carrying heavy bundles on their heads, losing time for school and farming.
We are changing that with improved clean cookstoves.
Our stoves are simple, and use 60 percent less wood. They burn clean, with almost no smoke, cook faster, and keep heat inside. A family that used to need a whole tree now cooks with a few branches.
With one stove, a mother breathes clean air, her children stop coughing, she saves hours every week, and fewer trees are cut.
We are already in villages installing stoves, but thousands of households still cook over open fire.
For a small gift, you can put a clean stove in a home that needs it.
Will you help us reach the next household and let a mother cook without smoke? Your support today brings health, time, and trees back to a family in Malawi.
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