Good morning from Kisii Kenya. I am so happy to show you this video. This is what I have been up to lately. We had clean cooking LPG cans for the poorest families in our community.
LPG burns cleanly and more efficiently. Refilling the can once it runs out is straightforward because we have shops that do that in a radius of 4Km. We left three cans in our shop (on average 1.5 km radius at the centre) to help with the refilling. Refilling the 6 kg can goes for $1.10- affordable to everyone. The can will last a month plus for an average family cooking three times a day. Most families will cook using LPG probably twice a day and up to three times during the rainy seasons.
We gave out 43 LPG cans to 43 families. On average, one family comprises of 6 members. Multiplied by 43 is over 250 people with access to clean cooking. The IEA has a Clean Cooking in Africa conference in ‘Paris’ as from next week. I attended their press conference Q&A session on Tuesday and I had questions for them. I wouldn’t say they answered any of my questions despite the host reading my questions for the team. My first question was:
LPG is the clearest way to enhance clean cooking in Africa. Aren’t they worried the UN climate change scare will interfere with that?
Do they support development of natural gas in Africa for Africans? Because it doesn’t make sense if we export the resources collected to solve clean cooking in Africa to the Middle East.
They mentioned Bio-ethanol! ..or growing of food to improve clean cooking. I wonder why we cant grow food to solve hunger first before we can worry about clean cooking.
We also bought Masongo ironsheets for his house.
The two projects are funded in Bitcoin!
Thank you for sharing this example of how life gets better for Kenyans when they have access to inexpensive fossil carbon fuels. Much healthier than cooking over wood or coal fires. [I spent two weeks in Kenya in February/March of 2022.]