Eye Care, Africa! (ECA) Clean Stoves
The Problem
90% of rural African women cook on 3-stone fires in houses or huts with little or not ventilation. The resulting continuous exposure to cooking smoke damages eyes and lungs from infancy.
How our Projects Happen
We teach women to build ECA Clean Stoves that eliminate up to 90% of CO emissions.
The Stoves are of simple design, a 2ml steel efficient cooking box, a flue and chimney.
African Women Trainers teach other women to build these Stoves.
Long-term, through savings groups and/or microfinance, women are empowered economically to sell the stoves or form community-based cooperative groups for sustainability.
African women do these projects locally, ECA does not.
Current Projects
We have 2 ECA Stove Projects ongoing in rural Karongi and Huye Districts in Rwanda.
We empower women to teach other women to build ECA Clean Stoves to prevent eye and lung damage from cooking smoke.
We work through rural Churches and Communities. The women do the projects--They take ownership of their CCS Projects.
Your Support
Every penny of ECA Donors' money goes directly to education and projects in rural villages. There are no salaries and no funds are funneled through or to the government. All donations are tax deductible under our 501(c)(3) status.
It is only with your support that our critical work can move forward.
90% of rural African women cook on 3-stone fires in houses or huts with little or not ventilation. The resulting continuous exposure to cooking smoke damages eyes and lungs from infancy.
How our Projects Happen
We teach women to build ECA Clean Stoves that eliminate up to 90% of CO emissions.
The Stoves are of simple design, a 2ml steel efficient cooking box, a flue and chimney.
African Women Trainers teach other women to build these Stoves.
Long-term, through savings groups and/or microfinance, women are empowered economically to sell the stoves or form community-based cooperative groups for sustainability.
African women do these projects locally, ECA does not.
Current Projects
We have 2 ECA Stove Projects ongoing in rural Karongi and Huye Districts in Rwanda.
We empower women to teach other women to build ECA Clean Stoves to prevent eye and lung damage from cooking smoke.
We work through rural Churches and Communities. The women do the projects--They take ownership of their CCS Projects.
Your Support
Every penny of ECA Donors' money goes directly to education and projects in rural villages. There are no salaries and no funds are funneled through or to the government. All donations are tax deductible under our 501(c)(3) status.
It is only with your support that our critical work can move forward.
Give a woman a fish and feed her for a day, teach a woman to fish and she has fish for a lifetime.