Smokeless Cookstove Foundation

SCF conducts the Smokeless Cookstove Revolution, training rural, migrant, and tribal communities to craft virtually cost-free, efficient cookstoves using Rocket Stove Technology. These stoves reduce smoke output, fuel usage, and cooking time, allowing families to focus on livelihood activities. Materials like mud, grass, and cow dung are used, with metal moulds forming the base. While not competing with market models, this solution offers immediate adaptability at no cost. Additionally, SCF provides community-sized chulhas to conscious agricultural and dairy farms, aiming to influence nearby communities towards sustainable practices, minimizing reliance on firewood.

During the pandemic, SCF's fieldwork halted, allowing them to delve deeper into the clean cooking sector. It compiled reports for its partner enterprise, Himalayan Rocket Stove, and transitioned into a facilitator role within the sector. SCF now bridges the gap between solution providers and user communities, facilitating the implementation of various clean cooking solutions, including biomass, solar, and biogas-based options. It focuses on capacity building for grassroots NGOs, community-based communication for behaviour change, and integrating clean fuel propositions into comprehensive clean cooking programmes.