Impact
Impact
Transforming Lives
The Nation's Favourite Cooking Companion
Since its inception in 1990, Wonder Stoves, under the umbrella of Westwind Energy, has been a transformative force, profoundly impacting lives across Sierra Leone. By introducing energy-efficient cookstoves, the initiative has not only addressed environmental concerns but has also been a catalyst for socio-economic change.
- Reduced fuel costs
- Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
- Improved health through reduced indoor air pollution
- Improved livelihoods for local communities
- Increased awareness of clean energy alternatives
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Our Impact
Our Contribution
Access to our improved cookstove has a profound effect on communities by empowering, educating, and enhancing lives for a healthier and cleaner future. Clean cooking directly supports 10 of the 17 SDGs, highlighting its significant role in helping to reach these goals.
SDG1
Clean cooking is part of basic services necessary to lead a healthy and productive life and saves households time and money.
SDG2
Efficient cookstoves reduce the amount of fuel needed to cook, thus reducing the burden on families who would otherwise have to collect it, buy it, or trade their food for it.
SDG3
Reducing smoke emissions from cooking decreases the burden of disease associated with household air pollution and improves well-being, especially for women and children.
SDG4
Children, particularly girls, are often kept out of school so that they can contribute to household tasks, like cooking and collecting fuel.
SDG5
Unpaid work, including collecting fuel and cooking, remain a major cause of gender inequality.
SDG7
Clean cooking is essential to addressing energy poverty and ensuring sustainable energy security for billions of people.
SDG8
Energy access enables enhanced productivity and inclusive economic growth. The clean cooking sector offers many job opportunities.
SDG11
Clean cooking addresses household and ambient air pollution, resource efficiency, and climate vulnerability.
SDG4
Up to 25% of black carbon emissions come from burning solid fuels for household energy needs. Clean cooking solutions address the most basic needs of the poor, while also delivering climate benefits.
SDG15
Up to 34% of woodfuel harvested is unsustainable, contributing to forest degradation, deforestation, and climate change.
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Our Projects
Access to our improved cookstove has a profound effect on communities by empowering, educating, and enhancing lives for a healthier and cleaner future. Clean cooking directly supports 10 of the 17 SDGs, highliting it’s significant role in helping to reach these goals.
Skills Training Programme
Our year-round “Earn While You Learn” initiative empowers women and youth, training over 200 artisans since 2013, fostering job growth in the clean cooking sector.
School Feeding Programme
In 2021, our institutional cookstoves, piloted by WFP and GIZ/EnDev, supported Sierra Leone’s National School Feeding Programme, ensuring daily meals for 800,000 children.
Supporting Landslide
Production and delivery of 1000 improved cookstoves for distribution to households affected by the 2017 landslide.
Piloting Instiutional Cookstoves
Support for developing a prototype of Institutional Rocket Stove and piloting Institutional Cookstoves in schools across Sierra Leone.
Supporting Ebola
Social and Economic Integration Training for Ebola Survivors in Production and Marketing of Improved Cookstoves.
Help Women & Children have a Future
By supporting Westwind Energy today – by joining as a Member, or making a donation – you’ll help us to continue to deliver transformational projects which can help change the world for the better.
Join Our Mission to Improve Kitchens
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