As our pledge, we are successful in providing the clean cookstoves to the villages of Nepal that were hard hit by the Earthquake.
We started with training to the locals to assemble the stove, hence generating employment, and we provided the cleaner cooking solution to the household; to reduce the significant impact of indoor air smoke in the health of women, men, and children.

Problem with traditional cooking:
Air pollution due to cooking on an inefficient stove and smoke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Nepal. Studies conducted in Nepal have documented chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Tuberculosis, Cataract in women, and pneumonia in children from the use of simple biomass cookstove  (Bates et al., 2013; Pokhrel et al., 2013; Pokhrel et al., 2010; Pokhrel et al., 2005).

BANWO is proud to collaborate with a University of California Berkeley alumni initiated start-up, Energant, a Bay Area based company to provide clean cooking, lighting and powering solutions to the earthquake-affected population.