Mission
Inefficient stove technologies contribute to deforestation, unsafe conditions in the home, soil erosion, and contribute to the death of 2 million infants each year due to wood-smoke inhalation.
Hestian’s improved cook stoves and fuel efficiency projects in Southern Africa directly reduce indoor cooking smoke – one of the leading causes of acute respiratory infections and the top killer of young children worldwide.
Hestian’s efforts have resulted in over 3,500,000 Malawians using improved cook-stoves and helped to create over 3,000 jobs.
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Impact
Support
For every Euro 20 received as Support, one VER is retired permanently. (Smaller amounts will be aggregated.)
VERs are a very cool metric for measuring successful stove distribution, user-training and on-going maintenance because of the Gold Standard* auditing system.
The stoves replace traditional 3 Stone Fires.
It’s really a Quadruple Whammy:
- Health benefits from less household smoke
- Job creation for 1000’s of women in rural areas of Africa
- Fuel cost and labour savings for 10,000s of ultra-low-income families
- Environment saving though Greenhouse Gas Reductions and natural resource preservation
This method of development funding is really clever because it is results based and not aspirational.
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Testimonials
If this village can plant 10 trees and prune 5 trees, the whole village can use the wood for one month, as the wood required for a Chitetezo Mbaula is not a lot.
Once you are sick, you can move the Chitetezo stove and put it nearby.It is portable and it can be used to keep you warm.
I pay school fees for my child in secondary school. When we use the Chitetezo stove, we save the environment.