Chulha, a cooking stove intended for use in the developing world by Philips Design, is among the winners of the Index Awards 2009, which were announced in Copenhagen last night.
Chulha allows people to cook in the traditional way but removes reduces the amount of fuel required and the risk of injury or death caused by smoke inhalation.
The stove won the Home category of the biannual awards, which promote design that improves people’s lives.
The stove is being made available by Philips Design to the universe of social entrepreneurs so that they can, free of charge, produce the stove, themselves, and generate local business while helping counter what the World Health Organization estimates is some 1.6 million deaths per year from conditions prompted by the toxic fumes of indoor cooking with “bio-mass” fuels (wood, dung, peat, etc.).
Gotta get me one of these!!!
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