This is one of a series of blog posts linked to the research I did for the 'Discover Geography' series, and mentioning some of the reading I did to prepare some of the chapters.
Not all of this material made it into the final book so I'm sharing it in these posts.
I was very pleased to get a mention for Mukuru Clean Stoves into the Discover Geography book. It's part of the chapter in the Year 8 book on everyday life.
Mukuru Stoves is a company that is based in Ghana and is an excellent story of African innovation. It was founded by a woman called Charlot Magayi.
This is an inspiring story of resilience and perseverence.
This Conversation piece talks about the lack of clean fuels for the clean energy transition.
The stoves were one of the winners of the Earthshot Prize in 2022. This gave her £1 million to help the next stage of her business' development.
I have been using these stoves as an example of hopeful geographies. One woman has changed the lives of millions already through the sales of her stoves as well as the jobs created in manufacturing and selling the stoves and their fuel, which is made from agricultural waste in one of the designs.
Check out the website and the story.
Here's a worksheet that I used with Year 8 to help them interrogate the story.
Mukuru Clean Stoves by Alan Parkinson
Watch the video here too:
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