Low-Smoke Cooking Environment
July 2018, Mozambique
Develop a low-cost stove that produced little or no smoke; or an efficient extractor system that can be coupled to current cooking methods.
Smoke is the main cause of cataracts and respiratory diseases in rural Mozambique, this comes as a result of using charcoal and wood to cook in closed homes with little ventilation. Thus Helvetas has proposed a two sided project: a low-cost extractor mechanism for these cooking environments; or the development of a stove that produces negligible amounts of harmful smoke.
Location
Cabo Delgado, Mozambique