Mukuru Clean Stoves - Hopeful Geographies

Mukuru Stoves is a company that is based in Ghana and is an excellent story of African innovation. It was founded by a woman called Charlot Magayi.

This is an inspiring story of resilience and perseverence.

This Conversation piece talks about the lack of clean fuels for the clean energy transition.

The stoves were one of the winners of the Earthshot Prize in 2022.

I have been using these stoves as an example of hopeful geographies. One woman has changed the lives of millions already through the sales of her stoves as well as the jobs created in manufacturing and selling the stoves and their fuel, which is made from agricultural waste in one of the designs.

Check out the website and the story.

Here's a worksheet that I used with Year 8 to help them interrogate the story.

Mukuru Clean Stoves by Alan Parkinson

Watch the video here too

Ella and air pollution

For those Year 9s who have been following this story as we suggested. The sad story of Ella and her parents' fight to have air pollution added as the cause of her death.

This Guardian article outlines the outcome.

Remember that your teachers will have given you a date by which we would like you to submit your final reports. Data and graphs have been provided based on the 300 data points that Y9 cumulatively collected.

Air Quality Fieldwork

Data collected on the 4th of December.

Air Quality in the SE

An article in today's Guardian.


Year 9 will be exploring this issue this week...