Sustainable Stoves
Providing access to cleaner, low cost and fuel-efficient energy to 3 billion people worldwide whilst maintaining long-held cooking practices and traditions.
3.8 million people die prematurely each year due to household smoke inhalation
Smoke inhalation from household cooking is the second largest contributor to ill health in the world
Most traditional cooking methods involve the release of black carbon, a top contributor to global warming
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What we are doing
Our solution to this huge challenge is an affordable rocket stove, which is fuel-efficient, reduces cooking time, and significantly minimises dangerous emissions into homes and the environment, all whilst maintaining the traditional smoky flavour of Fijian cooking. With goals to decrease dangerous gases that are harmful to millions of lungs and the Earth, reduce deforestation, increase energy independence and empower local community members through employment across the developing world, it’s more than just an alternate cooking method.
The design of our Buka Stove (or ‘clean stove’) allows for greater airflow leading to a more complete combustion, meaning that with an increase in heat output, the production of harmful carbon monoxide is dramatically reduced, and the amount of fuel required for the same amount of cooking is significantly less. It also works with accessible and renewable fuel sources, such as wood and biomass briquettes, and other combustible waste such as animal dung. As an additional benefit, the rocket stove enables more efficient cooking times for families, and more time spent undertaking other activities, including paid work and furthering education.
Project Everest is working in Sigatoka, Fiji and Dili, Timor-Leste, to implement this social enterprise solution within rural communities through the employment of local sales agents, further enabling local economic stability, gender equality and growth opportunities.
How to Get involved
Connecting young change-makers and technology partners you will be testing social enterprise solutions in real-world contexts at the very early stages. This is an opportunity to deeply understand our community members and work with them to develop a meaningful social impact.
Our Impact
Partners
SEE WHAT OUR AWESOME
Change-Makers SAY ABOUT
OUR PROGRAMS
“If someone had told me on the first day of project that within 3 weeks I would have had the skills, knowledge and confidence to pitch something I am passionate about effectively to an NGO in a different country I would have laughed. 3 weeks later, I did just that. I met with an NGO who loved the product and, on the spot, suggested that PEV organise a meeting with the UNDP to aid in promoting and distributing the stove. A suggestion which nearly knocked me off my chair.”
Sophie Heath
“You guys are doing a really good thing because this changes lives”
Seru |Village Pastor, Fiji
Our
Impact
Projects
You can join over 9 active projects we have developed in countries such as India, Timor-Leste, Fiji and Malawi, as well as rural communities around Australia. You can even make a social impact from the comfort of home as a social impact consultant through our Virtual Impact Program. Our innovative project solutions span across a range of areas for maximum impact, including agriculture, microfinance and solar energy solutions.
Fuel Biodigesters
A safe, low-cost fuel alternative for 3 billion people worldwide by converting agricultural waste into clean energy.
Solar Infrastructure Consulting
Providing Indian businesses and households with reliable and safe electricity through affordable, clean, solar energy.
4Ize Consulting
Changing the lives of over 1 billion people who suffer from vision impairment, with an end-to-end testing and spectacles dispensing system that can be used by local people with no prior vision testing experience.
Ag-Tech Consulting
Ensuring food security, nutritious diets and economic empowerment for 500 million smallholder farmers around the world, whilst safeguarding biodiversity and boosting developing economies through sustainable and efficient agricultural supply chains.
Fiji, India, Timor-Leste, Malawi, Australia, Virtual
AG Tech, Food Security and Environmental Sustainability
2 - 4 Weeks
Anti-Poaching
Preventing mass extinction and guarding biodiversity by stopping illegal wildlife poaching using AI technology.
Female Sanitation | Menstrual Cups
Empowering women and girls through safe sanitation practices and access to education and opportunities, using reusable and hygienic menstrual cups
Female Sanitation | Reusable Pads
Empowering women and girls through safe sanitation practices and access to education and opportunities, using reusable and hygienic pads.
Financial Literacy Consulting
Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and economic independence through access to financial literacy and resources to enable growth opportunities.
Microfinance
Empowering small-scale entrepreneurship and economic independence through access to socially beneficial assets and services using microfinance loans.
Solar Solutions Consulting
Electrifying the 16.5 million Malawians with no access to electricity using affordable, clean, solar power.
Sustainable Stoves
Providing access to cleaner, low cost and fuel-efficient energy to 3 billion people worldwide whilst maintaining long-held cooking practices and traditions.
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