UN.org: "A cooking stove improves lives in Kenya"
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"On the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya, an elderly woman forages in the Ngong Forest for fallen branches. In a small village in Karachuonyo, in Kenya’s Nyanza province, a mother prepares a meal for her family in a smoke-filled kitchen. With her eyes bloodshot and watery she coughs as she helplessly waves off the acrid smoke from the cooking stove. In Kawangware, one of Nairobi’s diverse neighborhoods, a student has not finished her homework, but knows that she needs to turn off the kerosene lamp or risk using more than the week’s share of light." Read More
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Project Surya makes a bold entry into the Voluntary Carbon Credit Market
Team of cook stove suppliers, solar lamp manufacturers, NGOs, Rural Bank and academics is pioneering a new Approach for getting carbon credit directly wo women using the renewable technologies. You Can Help
Your can directly aid Project Surya expand into new homes. Your $70 donation will provide a household with a clean cookstove. At $30, your donation will provide a solar light.
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