Hi! My name is Irene and I am 12 years old. I live with my younger sisters in northen Uganda. Our parents farm in Apaa, far away from our home. Because it’s very far, many nights our parents don’t come back home, so we manage ourselves and I do the cooking most of the time. We are all so happy for this stove from Aid Africa because it cooks easily and faster and with no smoke! Today I can put beans on the stove in the morning with some small firewood and then leave for school. When we come back the beans are ready! In the past, when we wanted to cook beans, one of us had to remain home to tend the fire. We would have to chop and split wood which took time and was hard work. Now we pick up small branches from the eucalyptus trees bordering our school and I have more study time. I can come home, eat, and go back for my afternoon lessons while my siblings remain at home with food to eat, no longer coughing from unhealthy smoke. Thank you Aid Africa! This stove has helped our lives in many ways.
AID AFRICA
AID AFRICA
Aid Africa works with some of the poorest people on the planet in the villages of northern Uganda. We work with hundreds of villages. We help to make sure they have clean water sources. We dig wells. We create sheltered springs. We maintain those water sources so that people can have clean water. We also have invented an energy-efficient cookstove. The traditional stove is just a fire pit in their homes, their mud huts, and everybody breathes in tons of smoke. We do some reforestation for all the trees that have been cut down, but also fruit trees so that the people can have better nutrition and also they can make a little money selling the fruit themselves. We do health fairs and we test people for HIV and for malaria. We make sure that they get the meds they need. We do some prevention education about HIV and malaria and domestic violence. We all pitch in together to make it happen.
