Access to clean cooking can result in gender equality, better health by reducing pre-mature deaths and timesavings. It can also allow girls to access education, earn an income or start a business that can support financial literacy and independence.

“Households without clean cooking spend an average of 5 hours per day collecting fuel and cooking. Daily trips to gather firewood expose women to the risk of violence and assault as they leave their communities to search further afield.” (International Energy Agency)

Future Perspectives aims to support with advocacy campaigns with local and national organizations for universal access to clean cooking thereby increasing education, adoption and financing commitments from public and private funders to empower more African youth in creating solutions through production, accessibility and scale of clean stoves.