Why Smart Cooking Will Help Reduce Air Pollution And Save Lives

Yina Sun, an American student, vividly recalls her trip to Awendo, a town in Kenya. “Every house I visited, there was a mother cooking over a three-stone fire stove with smoke blowing in her face, spreading everywhere. Standing in that same room and feeling suffocated with smoke really impacted me. Knowing that millions of women across Kenya are living this way, inhaling smoke every single day, was devastating.”