Darfur Project

Aprovecho Research Center was chosen by UN agencies to furnish 200 of our Institutional Stoves for a pilot project in Darfur, Sudan. The 200 stoves will be installed across Western Darfur in school feeding programs, where 200,000 children currently get much of their daily nutrition.

Institutional Stove program Director Fred Colgan is traveling to Darfur at the end of 2011 to oversee the installation of these stoves in various IDP camp school feeding programs, and to conduct field testing of the stoves’ efficiency and emissions. Aprovecho's Institutional Stove was designed to use wood or other biomass fuels. This pilot will prove Aprovecho’s Institutional Stove's viability as a dual-fuel wood/briquette stove. In this region, briquettes are made with trash, dung, and crop waste, and account for half of the cooking fuel used.  

Aprovecho’s Institutional Stove program is currently working on proposals to bring institutional stove “Factories in a Box” - a system to make these stoves locally in other countries - to Nigeria, Vanuatu, Ghana, Haiti, Uganda, East Timor and Gambia. We are all excited about bringing this cleaner and more efficient burning cookstove to schools, hospitals and other institutions throughout the developing world.