Region
Kekika
Kekika, encompasses the regions of kinale, kamai and kereita near the Aberdares Range.
The Aberdares Range is located in the central province Kenya. It stretches 130km North-South from Nyahururu to Limuru and its highest peak has an altitude of 4,000m above sea level.
Project Type
Improved Cook Stoves (Wood)
Our energy efficient stoves are made entirely in East Africa and utilise the ‘Rocket stove’ technology which offers a good balance between cost, life expectancy and efficiency. These stoves reduce firewood consumption by half and save in the region of 3.00 tonnes of greenhou...
Aberdares Improved Cook Stoves
Project Details
This small scale Gold Standard project will involve the free distribution of wood-burning improved cook stoves to households in the Kekika region, located in the Aberdares Range in Kenya.
Region
Project Type
Within the Aberdares Range there is large scale, uncontrolled, irregular, or illegal human activities like charcoal production, logging, settlements, and crop cultivation. This has caused devastation within the range. The situation is so critical that a fence is being constructed to reduce such degradation.
co2balance will be attempting to address some of these issues by distributing improved cook stoves in the area surrounding the range. In the absence of this project, locals would primarily cook using traditional inefficient wood stoves.
The stoves will be constructed, distributed and installed by local people under the guidance of co2balance Kenya. These stoves will utilise the efficient rocket technology which initial testing has shown to be much efficient than traditional 3-stone fires. These stoves will use less firewood and emit less smoke, which will reduce daily firewood costs and illness caused by smoke inhalation.
