What We Have Done

Lifeline has stove programs in both Uganda and Sudan. In less than one year, Lifeline has instructed some 10,000 displaced women in Northern Uganda on how to make and use the “magic stove.” Lifeline has expanded its stove-making capacity to the point at which it is now producing about 4,000 stoves per month. Given an average family size of about five, Lifeline estimates that its stove program will have provided concrete and enduring benefits to some 100,000 or more displace persons in Northern Uganda by the end of 2006.

In Sudan, Lifeline is sharing its technical know-how with local and international relief agencies in an effort to improve and expand their stove programs in Darfur. Lifeline launched its first stove project in the Al Salaam Camp in El Fasher in August. That program has already received an enthusiastic reception from the camp population. Lifeline’s stove program has aready reached nearly 1,000 households and we estimate that we will reach more than half of the 10,000 households in that camp by year’s end. Lifeline’s ultimate goal is to spread the benefits of the “magic stove” throughout Darfur by showing relief agencies how to integrate that stove into their exiting programs.