For most of us, cooking is something we do every day, often from the comfort of our own kitchen. Now imagine if cooking ate up 20% of your income, emitted toxic smoke into your family home, and deforested your country. In Uganda, this is the reality for most families, as 90% of Ugandans burn wood or charcoal in an open fire that emits more heat to the air than it does to their cookpots.
Enter the Uga cookstove, a simple and locally produced stove that reduces the use of wood or charcoal by 50% because it burns fuel thoroughly and efficiently, concentrating the heat from the fire directly to the cooking surface where it matters most.