SMOKELESS INC

No mother should pay with her life for feeding her family. Yet more than 3.5 billion people, 40% of the world's population, depend on polluting open fires to prepare meals. Women and children suffer the most because it is habitually women who, surrounded by children, cook. Because firewood is rapidly becoming scarce, they burn other biomass such as crop waste, dried dung, and plastic trash. They inhale toxic smoke, which causes millions of deaths annually. Besides premature deaths, using wood as an energy source, together with population growth, is the root cause of the environmental crisis. Half of all extracted wood from the world's forests is used for cooking and heating. In Africa, it is the leading cause of deforestation. Many efforts have been made to solve the problem by introducing clean biomass-burning or solar-powered stoves. However, unlike the 'free' stone or mud open fire pits, the novel stoves depend on subsidies. Smokeless Charity exists to resolve the root cause of deat