Half of the world's population cooks every meal over an open fire, burning more wood than necessary and creating unhealthy conditions in the home.
TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE THIS
Since 1998, we’ve been working with our partners and local community members to design clean cookstoves that reduce deadly household air pollution, deforestation, and money spent on fuel. We design, produce, and distribute our stove parts in-country, creating jobs for rural tradespeople and employment for local small manufacturers.
Cooking with wood over an open fire fills kitchens with smoke; smoke that contains dangerous levels of particulates and carbon monoxide. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 4.1 million premature deaths per year due to respiratory conditions caused by indoor cooking. In Central America alone there almost 20 million people cooking with firewood daily.
Breathing the toxic smoke from open cooking fires can lead to acute respiratory illness, pneumonia, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Since 1998, we have been working with our partners and local community members to design clean cookstoves that greatly reduce deadly indoor air pollution, deforestation, and high fuel costs. These cookstoves are designed according to specific cooking needs and cultural context, which is why they can look very different from country to country. However, all of these stoves have one important thing in common: they make cooking much safer for women and their families.
Each cookstove decreases a family's need for firewood by 50-70%, as compared to standard open fire cooking, and reduces carbon emissions by at least 1.5 tons per year. When vented to the outside of the home, these improved cookstoves also decrease indoor air pollution. Our clean cookstove program is unique because we build all of our stoves in-country, using locally sourced materials and creating much needed jobs within each program country.
TWP has been a leader in the sector of clean cooking in Central America since 1998. By partnering with academics, and engineers in the sector, we have rigorously studied the environmental health impacts of our stoves, as well as social benefits including very high adoption of our stoves. Check out TWP's Google Scholar page to read our recent peer-reviewed publications on biomass cookstoves in Central America
Your support of TWP's clean cookstove program provides a family with a solution that eliminates smoke from their kitchens, protecting cooks and children from long-term harm.
Sponsor a cookstove, give the gift of a stove for a friend or family member, offset your CO2 footprint by supporting our stove programs, or travel with us on a TWP Work Tour to help build one. Most importantly, help us spread the word about Trees, Water & People!
Gift of a Stove
Over four million people a year die from exposure to indoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization. Most of these deaths are women and their children, who typically spend most of their time in smoky kitchens. A clean cookstove can dramatically improve the health of a family by reducing indoor air pollution by up to 90%. Cooking becomes much safer for women and children while also reducing environmental impact on local forests.
Your gift of a stove can improve quality of life for families immediately.
$25 & $75
Bank transfer donations take a few days to process, you will receive your tax receipt email once it goes through.