Globally, 500 million households prepare their meals with paraffin or on open fires using wood or charcoal. This produces high levels of indoor air pollution, resulting in sickness, and ultimately causing over 4 million premature deaths each year.

Paraffin fires are also a leading cause of shack fires in South Africa, making them incredibly dangerous to families and communities. In South Africa alone, there are over 5,000 informal settlement fires per annum.

Also, buying fuel consumes a large portion of the average household income, making it difficult for people to save money to improve their lives.

RWPA set out to make clean, affordable cooking accessible to everyone.

To achieve this, we present our Green Cooking Stove: an affordable cookstove specifically designed to burn cheap, locally produced biomass fuel such as wood pellets in a very clean and efficient way. When using RWPA’s Cook Stove, the amount of smoke and other harmful emissions easily complies with the air quality guidelines stated by the WHO.