"Cooking Shouldn't Kill"
Nancy Hughes presents at the PETS (President-Elect Training Seminar) Seattle, February 25, 2017
In 2007, Nancy Hughes and a team of volunteers wrote a Rotary matching grant and invented a small portable stove – the Ecocina, which produced almost no smoke and used less than half the wood of an open fire.
StoveTeam is a nonprofit, 501c3 organization, that helps local entrepreneurs establish factories in Latin America. These self-sustaining businesses produce safe, affordable, fuel-efficient cookstoves to replace dangerous open cooking fires. Ecocina factories have produced more than 58,504 stoves, improving the lives of more than 438,780 people.
StoveTeam's model has been awarded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Partnership for Clean Indoor Air Award for Developing Local Markets for our innovative approach creating local employment while improving health and reducing air pollution.
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