By the inhalation of toxic fumes of cookstoves, 4.3 million many young children and mothers die each year, reports WHO (World Health Organization). This is more deaths then caused by AIDS, malaria and TB all together!
Fires caused by unsafe cookstoves tipping over, cause disasters in townships, because liquid paraffin spread fire in seconds.
It’s easy to caused a safer, healthier and cleaner cooking environment, that is also a lot cheaper for the township inhabitants. Clean Cookstoves that are already in other parts of Africa, can achieve this. The ACE1 stove for example, produced in Lesotho, provides:
We are delighted and extremely grateful with the support of the best chefs around, from South Africa and other gastronomical areas on the globe!
Margot Janse, Chef Le Quartier Francais, South Africa:
‘I can’t just cook in our luxurious world, while around the corner there’s hunger. Sharing is caring, it’s fundamental – especially when working in a problematic social context like South Africa’
Michael Deg, Chef Delaire Graff, South Africa
Scot Kirton, La Colombe, South Africa
Ron Duprat, Montauk Yacht Club in New York
José Andrés, ThinkFoodGroup, Washington
Susan Kamau , Kenyan Kitchen, Kenia
Pati Jinich, Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, chef extraordinaire,, India
Moshik, Chef &Samhoud Places, the Netherlands
Our Clean Cooking Angels are locally recruited mothers, for who selling the cookstoves is a way to create an income stream and to step up. They also are able to empower their environment, because they can recruit new Clean Cooking Angels too.
Our Clean Cooking Ecosystem with our widely branched Clean Cooking Hubs, helps to have the stoves and the fuel to be available closeby.
As a thank you reward, we have collected some unique recipes, lunches, dinners, discounts and other perks, from passionate Master Chefs and restaurants the world over, who support our mission for clean cooking.
Thank you that you are willing to contribute! And thank you for sharing this with your fellow humans, so that even more people can join in.
We are a group of seasoned and passionate entrepreneurs and we work together with the local Clean Cooking Angels in the townships around Cape Town.