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The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation
The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation is an impact-driven organization focused on empowering and supporting young people to reach their goals
Clean Cookstove Project
According to the Global Burden of Disease study, found in The Lancet, indoor air pollution is one of the world’s largest environmental problems. It is also a problem that mostly affects the poorest in the world who typically lack access to clean fuels for cooking and was the second main cause of death in Ghana in 2019. his problem is important because indoor air pollution is a risk factor for several of the world’s leading causes of death, including heart disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes and lung cancer.
To prevent such deaths WHO recommends against the use of solid fuels, unprocessed coal and kerosene for indoor cooking since these fuels exceed its emission rate targets for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion. While WHO recommends the following “clean fuels”: biogas, ethanol, LPG, solar, natural gas and electricity, they are not the cheapest sources of fuels, leaving many people with no choice but to use solid fuels.
Concerned with this problem, Honourable Zanetor engaged Comeph Associates to reconstruct the traditional ovens used by the women at the Osu Night Market, into smokeless ovens. The new smokeless designs, outdoored in January 2019 , used less firewood and resulted in reduced emissions, both of which greatly increased the health and economic outcomes of the women.
Since the Osu Night Market installation was funded through the MPs Common Fund, Honourable Zanetor was determined to find a more sustainable way of continuing to explore similar projects to reduce air pollution for women.
Hence, in early 2024, Honourable Zanetor commissioned retrofitted cookstoves to dramatically reduce the exposure of the women at the kitchens of Accra High School to pollutants from cooking
The Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Foundation is an impact-driven organization focused on empowering and supporting young people to reach their goals
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