FUEL EFFICIENT SMOKELESS STOVE

BACKGROUND

Pakistan is a third world country and most of its inhabitants are engaged with agriculture. Almost 65 percent population is living in rural areas, where people are using tree and herbs as a fuel to cook and bake the food. People are also using trees for the other needs like furniture, sport goods and building material etc. Because of this the forest are vanishing at great speed, which is effecting the environment very badly. Secondly tree and herbs are is such stoves, which raised very much smoke, which is threat for the women health, who have to manage this all. This smoke also effects the environment and causes the pollution. So, there is need to educate and train the community to adopt such methods and techniques for the safety of health and environment.

GOALS

• To train the volunteers to provide fuel-efficient stoves among targeted areas
• To introduce fuel efficient stove at doorstep with the help of trained volunteer
  

OBJECTIVES

• To organized training workshops
• To save health of target groups from omission of harmful gases
• To save environment
• To lessen deforestation
  

ACTIVITIES

• Awareness seminar about harmful effect of traditional Stove
• Targeted areas first will be sensitized about harmful effect of smoke on health, environment, food quality and importance of fuel-efficient stove
• After sensitizing the targeted areas training workshop will be conducted in these areas in which participants were made fuel-efficient stove
• Regular follow up will be continued
  

ADVANTAGES

• Less use of fuel
• Less smoke
• Time saving
• Safety of utensils
• Clean environment
• Emission of smoke at height
• Cooking of two dishes at a time
  

DISADVANTAGES

• Very Technical
• Laborious
  

IMPACTS

Impacts of this stove on different aspects of life like; health, food quality, environment, economic and social are as follows:

• Health
  
  • Safety from disease like TB, Asthma, allergies and other disease like low fertility, locaria etc (good health)
    
• Food Quality
  
  • Safety of food nutrients like (protein, carbohydrates from health)
  • Maintaining taste and Food quality (Quality Food)
    
• Environment
  
  • Less consumption of wood, so less production of smoke (Clean Environment)
    
• Economic
  
  • Less usage of fuel (Economic stability)
    
  • Clean Utensils
    
  • Less emission of smoke (Long life span of utensils)
    
  • Clean kitchen
    
  • Emission of smoke at height (Clean Environment)