Meet the Berkeley-Darfur Stove
The Darfur Stoves Project seeks to protect Darfuri women by providing them with specially developed stoves which require less firewood, hence decreasing women’s exposure to violence while collecting firewood and their need to trade food rations for fuel.
With our previous partner, 5,000 stoves were disseminated in Darfur. The Darfur Stoves Project and its current partners, Oxfam America and the Sudanese organization, Sustainable Action Group (SAG) plan to distribute at least 12,000 stoves by the end of 2010.
By the end of the year, Berkeley-Darfur Stoves will also reduce CO2 emissions by as much as 18,000 tons annually which is equivalent to taking 3,400+ average US cars off the road for an entire year! Assuming all families buy all of their wood, current production will save displaced persons $1.8 million per year.
The Darfur Stoves Project is the first initiative of our parent organization, Technology Innovation for Sustainable Societies (TISS). The mission of TISS is to link research institutions, nonprofit organizations, and private distributors to increase the availability of affordable, appropriate technology to help improve the quality of life and create employment in places affected by poverty and conflict.
Learn more about the Berkeley-Darfur Stove and how you can make a difference in Darfur.
