As the number of trees dwindles rapidly, people have to travel greater distances to collect wood.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

Paradigm works primarily in rural Kenya, providing women with clean cookstoves that reduce wood consumption and toxic smoke, saving long and often treacherous journeys to collect wood and preventing the development of pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses.

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Perhaps the best part about being a camp counselor was making our wards risk mosquito bites and poison ivy in order to collect dirty, rotting wood for their campfires -- while we sat around laughing and planning the evening's snipe hunt.

ENGADGET: Bonfire, the Tripod Burner: all the fun of a cookout with none of the work