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Providing Smokeless Bread Making Stoves for a Safe and Healthy Home Environment

Providing Smokeless Bread Making Stoves for a Safe and Healthy Home Environment

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About Campaign

World Health Organisation (WHO) data states that “4.2 million people die from exposure to outdoor air pollution, in addition to the 3.8 million whose deaths are linked to household smoke produced by dirty stoves and fuels. The main problem posed by heating and cooking is the smoke, which kills 54,000 Afghans a year. Most of those killed are children under five." The WHO also ranked the problem as one of the worst health risks facing the poor. "More than 95% of Afghanistan’s 30 million people burn solid fuels, such as wood and coal, in their homes, said the World Health Organisation, making it one of the top 10 countries worst-affected by indoor pollution.” This campaign is the follow-up to the smoke prevention workshops that ran throughout the autumn in 2022 which focused on supporting household skill development around cooking techniques, reducing firewood consumption as well as the reduction of household smoke. The goal is the purchase of 20 smoke-detected breadmaking stoves to reduce the smoke inside the living houses and reduce wood consumption. These breadmaking stoves are locally made in Faizabad City and will go a considerable way to reaching the larger goal which is a 5% reduction on the use of wood in homes in this region.

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Kelly Brantner

Kelly Brantner is the CEO of Business for Better Society (BBS), a global foundation with a vision to make giving ethical and easy, while building partnerships for purposeful and sustainable impact. Over the last three years, BBS has conducted project work in Afhganistan's Badakhshan region with a focus on adult literacy and life skills programing plus has opened libraries and women's centres in various villages in the region. Ms. Brantner has been the CEO of BBS since 2018 and prior to taking on the CEO role she served as a board member to the organisation. Ms. Brantner was based in Asia for over 14 years where she served as the Executive Director of Asia Operations for Rutgers Business School, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey and reported directly to the Dean of the Business School and the Executive Vice Chancellor of Rutgers University. She served for two terms as the President of Viva, Beijing’s Professional Women’s Association and two terms as a Board of Director member for the Canada China Business Council. Ms. Brantner is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in London.