Guatemalan families cook with wood over an open fire in their corrugated iron make-shift homes. With little or no ventilation, this causes the home to fill with dense black smoke that is toxic and deadly. The World Health Organisation has stated that “children exposed to the open fires used for cooking in Guatemala will develop permanent lung damage by the age of five” We have had to supply oxygen to children suffering from lung disease.

Installing a safer alternative into our families’ homes. We trialled two different models of stove so that we could evaluate their efficiency, and most importantly in such an underdeveloped country, their ease of use. These new stoves reduce 99% of the smoke emissions and provide a far safer alternative to an open fire.