Fuel Efficient Technologies

During the past two decades, Sudan, Uganda and much of the rest of East Africa have lost one-third of their forest cover – about half of which is attributable to the use of wood for cooking. The human costs of this cooking method are staggering and include:

• Depressed living standards: a typical female villager will spend approximately one third of her time collecting wood and cooking
  
  
• Sexual violence: in insecure regions like Darfur, collection of firewood is the single greatest risk factor for rape.
  
  
• Respiratory disease: indoor air pollution resulting from open fire cooking is responsible for 300,000 to 500,000 premature deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa each year.

To find out how Lifeline is addressing these and other problems associated with open fire cooking, click on one of the links below.