Fuel-efficient stoves reduce the risk of women to be exposed to dangers. Also, they are green.
Aid worker's blog: How fuel-efficient stoves can help women avoid rape
To try to reduce the risk of violence against women as they go about their daily lives, World Vision is working with a local organisation to introduce fuel-efficient stoves, which use less firewood.
Usually women build an open fire with three stones and eight kilogrammes of wood collected from a nearby forest. But the fuel-efficient stoves need only two kilogrammes of wood each day.
Earlier this month Ndamubuya and Suzanne were both taught how to make simple stoves from local materials. They are waiting for their new clay constructions to solidify before they can use them next week.
Today they are teaching other women how to pound and mould the sand and clay to create stoves which will not only save them time and energy, but will also help them avoid the risk of rape.
“My new stove will reduce the number of trips I have to make to the forest,” said Ndamubuya. “It will also keep my hut warm at night as it burns for longer.”
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