Every Family Deserves Clean Air
In many homes across Central America, cooking still happens the same way it did hundreds of years ago over an open fire, inside the home.
The smoke fills the room.
Children breathe it in.
Mothers cook surrounded by it every day.
What should be a simple, shared moment preparing food slowly becomes a health risk, a safety hazard, and a daily burden.
This is where change begins.
A Safer Way to Cook. A Healthier Way to Live.
The vision is simple: A world where every family cooks safely and sustainably fueling healthier lives and resilient communities.
That vision comes to life through fuel-efficient cookstoves that replace open fires with something safer, cleaner, and built to last.
How it works
Built With Communities, Not Just For Them
Together with StoveTeam International, we support cookstove solutions designed specifically for families in Central America.
These stoves are:
- Hand-built by local technicians
- Made using local materials like brick, concrete, and ash.
- Designed for the foods families already cook every day
Each stove is built directly inside the home, with a chimney that safely vents smoke outdoors.
Families are involved in the building process creating pride, trust, and long-term adoption.
This isn’t a temporary fix. It’s a system designed to last.
Health Begins at Home
Replacing an open fire with a high-efficiency cookstove changes daily life immediately.
- Indoor smoke is eliminated, reducing overall smoke by 86%
- Families' risk of respiratory illness, eye disease, and smoke-related complications are significantly reduced.
- Children are safer, with far fewer burn-related accidents
Cooking becomes what it should be again safe, calm, and shared.
Why Wood Matters
Wood is often expensive, difficult to gather, or both.
These cookstoves:
- Uses up to 50% less wood
- Save families significant time and money
- Reduce the physical burden of collecting fuel
For families who buy wood, the savings can equal up to 25% of monthly expenses—money that can go toward food, education, or healthcare.
Clean Cooking That Creates Opportunity
Each project creates jobs where they’re needed most.
Local people are employed to build and install stoves, transport materials and manage projects and maintenance
Clean cooking doesn’t just improve homes—it strengthens entire local economies.
A Small Stove can have a Big Environmental Impact
Each Justa cookstove:
- Saves up to 12 tons of CO₂
- Significantly reduces black carbon emissions
- Protects forests by cutting wood consumption in half
Cleaner kitchens also mean a cleaner planet helping ensure sustainable communities for generations to come.
Why It Matters
For just $250, you can provide a family in Central America with a life changing Justa cookstove that lasts over 5 years. Each stove reaches 5–6 people dramatically improving health, reducing environmental harm, and creating local jobs.
The impact of one stove includes:
- Preventing respiratory illness caused by toxic smoke inhalation
- Cutting firewood use in half, helping reduce deforestation
- Empowering women to lead as stove promoters in their communities
- Creating stable, dignified jobs for skilled local builders
- Fighting climate change one home at a time
When your business joins the 1,000 Stove Challenge, you become part of StoveTeam’s mission to replace dangerous open fires with safe, fuel-efficient Justa stoves improving lives, protecting forests, and empowering communities across Central America.
A portion of our net revenue supports clean cooking initiatives like this helping families cook safely, breathe clean air, and build more resilient futures.
For those who want to go further, we also offer the option to sponsor a full cookstove for a family built, installed, and sustained through this community-led approach.