logo192

Clean Cook Stove Trainings for Rural Women

95% of women in rural communities in the Niger Delta use wood for the production of the key staple diet of cassava flour “Garri”, and preservation of fish via smoking. Research shows that wood consumption being the primary source of cooking fuel in rural communities, has adverse effects on human health and the environment, as reflected by deforestation and loss of much-needed biodiversity, ecosystem simplification and climate change. Since women are primary producers of food in rural communities, they are mainly at risk of respiratory diseases stemming from incomplete combustion of wood due to inefficient stoves and food processing methods. In addition, the continuous unsustainable deforestation of existing biodiversity for wood fuel is environmentally unfriendly due to amount of carbon emitted into the environment.

Rural Women fetching water from a polluted stream
in Ogale community Rivers State

In collaboration with project partners, the project trained rural women from communities at risk of climate change induced impacts. They were trained to make clay based clean cookstoves using traditionally accessible biomass materials that are readily available in rural communities. The trainings covered the three focus states of Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa-Ibom. The training of rural women to incorporate traditional methods and entrench locally led climate adaptation that will consequently provide a sustainable pathway for the wide spread conservation and protection of the environment.

Women making clay clean cookstoves in Okwuzi community, Rivers State

Recent Posts

Connecting the UnderServed

Using Community Networks to provide internet connectivity for rural communities. Implemented by the Media Awareness and Justice Initiative with the aim of opening new opportunities to underserved communities and groups across the Niger Delta

Supported by French Embassy in Nigeria

2021 DataCab.org