Help School Greenhouse Gasses with The Malawi Institutional Cookstove Project | Cool Effect
Less than one half of a percent of Malawi has access to any sort of efficient cooking. So having an institutional stove that can serve an entire classroom of students is a big deal. Your support today can help us install stoves for more than 1,000 institutions—feeding more than a million students. Serving lunch and planet Earth at the same time? Now that’s efficient. Learn more and take action: https://www.cooleffect.org/content/pr...
How does this project save the planet?
Trees absorb harmful greenhouse gases. And with deforestation in Malawi at an all-time high, Earth’s health is at an all-time low. These institutional cookstoves use 75 percent less wood than traditional three-stone fires. That means communities spend less on burning branches and more on branching out their organizations.
The project is currently serving 327,000 students in schools, helping to reduce wood use creating monetary savings for impoverished areas. By donating, you are helping fund a project that requires consistent funding to expand into new communities, and supporting the ongoing monitoring and improved systems of maintenance throughout Malawi.
Why did Cool Effect Choose This Project?
Malawi tops the list of the world’s least developed countries. Among the numerous efficient cookstove projects we have reviewed, this one stands out as an extremely important initiative. Rates of deforestation and the nonrenewable status of woody biomass fuel are extremely high in Malawi (81 percent, source: UNFCCC), hence this project will contribute greatly to conserving the forests while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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