Cook Stoves

2004, sponsored by the IHF, International Humanitarian Foundation, a non-profit started by Dartmouth College graduates, from Hanover, New Hampshire.  This project works in collaboration with the Betsy Elizabeth Trust to install smokeless stoves in poor village homes, starting with creche families, based on information from the WHO that indicates a high death rate for children under 5 years old from lung infections related to unventilated cookstoves in the home. Young lungs cannot tolerate the pollution and can lead to infection and death if untreated. We use a clay, 2 burner stove, made by local potters, which has a connection to a "chimney" made out of clay also. The benefits of this project spread far beyond our creche children, to their siblings, mothers, fathers and other members of the family, and also provide income for village potters.