Climate Change

Around 80% of women’s from Embu uses open fire cooking or three stones as their methods of cooking. This open fire cooking contributes to death of infants, causes respiratory disease like severe coughing, cancer and running eyes. Beside contributing to these diseases, it also contribute to deforestation ,desertification and climate change through emission of black carbon. Mount Kenya Environmental Conservation supports these women’s with energy conservation stoves which are smokeless and fuel-wood efficient.