Brick Cookstove

Our new brick cookstove uses almost any fuel such as maize stalks and cobs, rice straw, dung, small sticks and elephant grass stalks. This allows women to stop walking hours to collect firewood from forests. It slows deforestation. Each stove will save more than one...

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Side by side burn. This video shows how farmers typically burn their maize crop waste (pile on the left) by making piles, lighting the piles on the side and letting them burn to ash in a cloud of smoke. We train the farmers to light the pileson the top and smother the...

Biochar! Made by smallholder farmers.

Biochar is incredible. It doubles crop yield, improves soil fertility forever and improves the water retention capability of soil (a buffer against drought). Great climate change adaptation. And, biochar sequesters carbon and greatly reduces smoke from crop waste...

Launch in Tanzania

We are starting our launch in Tanzania! By the end of April, we hope that almost all women leaders in the 1140 Catholic parishes will be selling solar lights to replace filthy kerosene lamps, training women to use the cooking hole and training farmers to make biochar...