BURN Manufacturing (BURN), the leading manufacturer of clean cookstoves worldwide, has donated six ECOA institutional clean cookstoves and dry food to feed over 2,000 people per day affected by ongoing floods in the country.
The 200-liter institutional cookstove, designed to prepare bulk meals of up to 200 kgs, will facilitate meal preparation for displaced families in Nairobi’s Mathare and Mukuru Kwa Reuben areas.
According to BURN CEO, Peter Scott, the floods that have ravaged the country have left people across Kenya suffering from hunger making it crucial to provide cooked meals to these families immediately.
Currently, victims are housed in four camps within these areas of Nairobi, where six kitchens operate round the clock to ensure timely meal preparation. The kitchens have struggled to meet high demand, resulting in long waiting times and insufficient food distribution.
Mathare Social Justice Centre Coordinator, Wanjira Wanjiru, expressed gratitude, emphasizing that with these stoves, they can provide three meals – breakfast, lunch, and dinner in our six community kitchens here in Mathare.
“We are extremely grateful for the solidarity that BURN has shown us and for standing with our community. The need is great: we need food, warm clothes, diapers, pads for the women. We hope to have more partners come on board to support,” said Wanjira.
The improved cookstove offers significant benefits, including up to a 90% reduction in firewood consumption and the flexibility to use either firewood or briquettes, making it a cost-effective and versatile option for institutions. The stoves have a thermal efficiency rating of 65% and can boil 200 liters in 52 minutes.
The heavy rains in Kenya have caused over 257 deaths and displaced over 293,661 people to date.
“BURN will continue to manufacture and deliver these institutional stoves and dried food, and with more partners coming on board, we will expand our reach and impact even further. I am proud of my team for providing both cookstoves and food to victims,” said Peter Scott.
Since its launch in 2013, BURN has delivered over 4.5 million stoves across Africa, all produced in our Kenya Manufacturing facility. It has impacted over 4.2 million lives, helped families save more than $520 million on fuel costs, and saved 6.9 million tons of wood to date.
BURN operates two factories in Kenya, with a capacity to manufacture more than 400,000 stoves per month, and employs more than 2,500 factory and field staff.
