NGO donates wood stoves to women at Abaji

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Representative of the chairman of RUCEL, Abbas Musa, presents a wood stove to a housewife at Naharati Sabo village in Abaji Area Council on Saturday.

A non-governmental organization (NGO), Rural Clean Energy Access Initiative (RUCEL) on Saturday donated wood stoves to rural women of Naharati-Sabo community in Abaji Area Council.
Speaking during the group’s advocacy visit to the community, the chairman of RUCEL, Prof. Bashir Garba, said RUCEL is a non-governmental organisation that seeks to address energy poverty in the rural areas.

He said the project was mostly targeted at rural women, who used large quantity of firewood for their cooking.
He said the organisation decided to donate some of the wood stoves to housewives in order to mitigate climate change and the quantity of smoke they inhale whenever they cooked at home.
“Besides, the normal traditional open fire cook stove which consumes more firewood, accounts for 100,000 deaths yearly in Nigeria, which is the third cause of death after malaria and HIV/AIDs,” he said.
The Chief of Naharati  Sabo community, Malam Musa Ibrahim, thanked the NGO for the visit to the community to sensitive the women on the dangers in the use of large quantity of firewood while cooking.