Alice Njok

By Claret Adhiambo

Transition to cleaner cooking in Kenyan slums

Alice Njoki
Alice Njoki using Koko cooker.

The shift to cleaner cooking fuel

The Covid-19 pandemic presented a lot of challenges to Kenyans from all walks of life.

The lockdowns and the movement restrictions saw incomes dip in many families, forcing many women to turn away from cleaner cooking energy like LPG Gas to environmentally unfriendly fuels like wood, charcoal, and kerosene.

But now there is a shift to bioethanol cooking fuel.

This article is part of  African Women in Media (AWiM)/UNEP Africa Environment Journalism Programme

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