REAL NAME: Fatima Ibrahim Suliman from El Fasher, Darfur CASE STUDY NAME: Mariam Mohammed Mahmoud
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Ella Jolly
Issue Date
30/01/2015
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Energy
Alternative Title
Low Smoke Stoves in Darfur
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The project aims to contribute to poverty alleviation through improving the livelihoods of poor families by switching to a clean energy source, LPG (liquid petroleum gas) stoves. Benefits include reduced pressure on dwindling forests resources within the project areas in North Darfur and reduced indoor pollution (and therefore better respiratory health). The project is targeting the urban poor, those who are using biomass fuel and live in urban El Fasher where gas is easily accessible. In addition to reducing the indoor pollution, the project helps to reduce pressure on the already exhausted environment by drought and desertification. Project aim and objectives - Reduction/elimination of indoor air pollution, and as a consequence improve the health of women and children under 5 years Reduce firewood and charcoal consumption leading to environmental conservation - Reduce firewood and charcoal consumption leading to reduction in GHGs emissions and eventually positively affect climate change hazards - Improve the livelihoods of poor households The approach The stove is given on credit basis to be repaid in 10 installments including a first down payment. Money is collected by women „granters?. Each granter is responsible for 10 households. If a household fails to pay an installment, there is a group collateral where the other 9 members pay for the member. They have a separate small donations funds to cater for such shortfalls. “I’m a member of the Women’s Development Association in Korma. I’m married with eight children. I used to cook on a three stone fire. It was for awful our lungs and our eyes and so dangerous for my children. I never let them come into the kitchen when I was cooking but the smoke would still get into the rest of the house, and into their lungs. The wood I used to cook with was very expensive. One packet of wood costs 5 Sudanese pounds, and it would only last two weeks. The LPG gas is much cheaper. It costs 40/45 Sudanese pounds in one go but it lasts for maybe two whole months. But the best thing isn’t the extra money or time (the LPG stove cooks much faster). It’s that our home is now smoke-free. We are so much healthier and I feel that the kitchen is safe enough for my children. It also means my husband joins me in the kitchen now – he never used to! With Practical Action, I’ve trained other women across north Darfur that LPG stoves are the way forward. I use a LPG stove in a demonstration kitchen. I hope that Practical Action does more of this work in this district so all women have access to clean cooking. Long live Practical Action!”
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