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Pakiso is a 30-year-old year man married to a 27-year-old woman. He has three children aged between 8 and 3. His home is a combination of separate traditional huts. Pakiso has no access to electricity so his main energy expense is paraffin, on which he spends around LSL 320 every month, and for someone who survives on subsistence farming, this is too much for him.
When Pakiso heard about the ACE1 stove, he organised his neighbours to buy one each as he believes this stove will save him money and his wife's time on wood collection. With this stove he can use the LED lamp to light one of his huts, and his wife will also cook using less wood as the stove uses 50-70% less wood than cooking over an open fire. Moreover, Pakiso will save on mobile phone charging as the stove has a port where one can charge a phone.
Pakiso and the other people in the group have kindly requested a loan from Kiva lenders to pay for the stove.
Visit www.africancleanenergy.com or @AfricanCleanEnergy on Facebook to know more about the stove.
In this group: 'Makhotso, Pakiso, Nothembile, 'Malebohang, 'Mamosebi, 'Maselone
