ZAMBIA: Ndola Diocese Alerts People on Importance of Preserving and Protecting Trees
Construction of Energy Efficient Cookstove
Mwenya Mukuka
The Catholic Diocese of Ndola has embarked on creating awareness of the importance of preserving and protecting trees.
The project dubbed Sun24 Cookstove Project, aims at training communities in construction of wood saving stoves and engaging them in constructive and quality dialogue on the effects and impacts of deforestation and climate change.
There is a concern on how human activity through mining, agriculture, charcoal manufacturing and collection of logs for fire wood has slowly destroyed forests across the world that provided a ‘factory’ to purify the air for humanity.
The three alternative ways Ndola Diocese is promoting to cut down on the use of logs and depending heavily on charcoal are Rocks Bed (Wood Stove) which uses scrubs as fuel with small stones, Clay Maize/Corn Cob Basket which uses maize cobs in a small clay pot and Energy Efficient Cookstove.
Energy Efficient Cookstove involves the construction of a stove by mixing Ant-hill soil, building sand and sixty litres of water.
In his Encyclical letter, Pope Francis emphasizes the need to care for the Only Common Home (The earth).
Ndola Diocese has since trained 24 people who in turn are expected to train others in the use of the three alternative ways.
“Our Only Common Home needs replenishing and the Diocese is playing its part in imparting the knowledge and skills on the use of fuel efficient cookstoves,” read the statement on Ndola Diocese Facebook page posting.
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