Institutional Stove Project

“With the new stove, my eyes don’t water, my chest doesn’t hurt, my back doesn’t ache, and the baby on my back has stopped crying.”

The Institutional Stove Project is a “game changing” Initiative. With our new 60 Liter cooking Stove, Aprovecho is leading the global effort to manufacture and distribute fuel efficient stoves to serve the poorest of the poor in areas hit by natural disasters, in refugee and IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) camps, as well as children in schools and orphanages. Tens of millions of the world’s poorest people live in institutional settings. In Africa, most children receive much or all of their daily food from school feeding programs, which burn mountains of firewood cooking on open fires.

This stove represents the latest in rocket stove technology, and has achieved an unprecedented 60-75% fuel savings and 85% reduction in smoke and pollutants over open fire cooking, reducing deforestation and greenhouse emissions. Cooks love this stove. A major benefit is the empowerment of women and reduction of respiratory illness in women and children. Learn more about the stove design

In order to create local jobs, ensure sustainability, reduce cost, and place production close to end users, we have developed a methodology of fabrication and assembly called “Factory-In-A-Box”. Read More.

The stove also has an autoclave feature for use in hospitals and remote medical clinics to sterilize medical instruments in areas where electrical power is non-existent or sporadic. Read More.

We have developed a design for biomass briquette manufacture, to be used in conjunction with the institutional stove, to reduce the need for wood by an additional 80%. Read More.