SCF’s signature training programmes are teaching communities to make insulated burn tubes that are highly efficient and as they get hot enough to burn, they even burn out the smoke which results in a clean fire. Data and user feedback has confirmed that these stoves use far less wood because they simply burn efficiently and are a two-burner pot in design. Hence allowing women to cook two dishes simultaneously using the same bundle of wood. These chulahs are too simple and too effective to not be used as an interim improved cooking solution. In India, currently our projects are going in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh with initial pilots across several other states. Since the initiation of this programme, SCR team has been able to introduce the  idea of this ‘simple looking, zero cost, highly efficient and virtually smokeless’ mud chulah in 9 Indian states, amongst almost 80 districts and villages and over a 1200 people. Today, over a 1000 families who have adopted our chulah are happy as the women who cook on them are happy. There is nothing more precious than the health and well-being of women who cook and nurture the families and the children who grown up in a healthy environment. The simplicity and ease of cultural adaptability has made this ‘Rocket chulah’ positively acceptable within these communities and we are hoping to take this idea to several other communities who live with the menace of open cook fires…