A Ruiru-based company has made an energy saving jiko that is expected to help preserve the environment.
Burn
Manufacturing Company on Friday introduced the KuniOkoa
jiko.
It is designed to reduce the amount of firewood used in the traditional
three-stone fire place by 50 per cent and decrease the amount of smoke emitted by 72
per cent.
Company chief executive Peter Scott said, “My passion has
been to come up with a clean firewood stove for Africa so as to save forests
and lives.”
He said the KuniOkoa jiko has more advantages than the imported stoves.
Scott, a
global leader in cook stove commercialisation, said the jiko will
compliment the Jikokoa – another of their product.
He said the venture, that has been funded through
the Enhancing Livelihoods Investment Initiative, a partnership between Unilever, Acumen and the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, will
greatly contribute to the country’s efforts to conserve the environment.
