Social Impact Project for Best Practices for Process Improvements. - WEConnect cohort

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Project Description and Impact

We improve the lives of refugees and the rural poor in developing countries by distributing the Berkeley Darfur, an efficient cookstove. To date, we have distributed over 48,500 stoves in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and India. Cooking over and open fire – a common practice in the developing world – is the equivalent of smoking 200 cigarettes, every single day. Yet, 3 billion people cook their daily meals over an open fire, creating pollution that kills 4.3 million people each year, due to a lack of any other option. Traditional fires waste fuel, contribute to deforestation, release carbon into the atmosphere, and waste families’ money and time.