Why use Integrated Cooking?

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  1. It's free (solar), or nearly free (rocket stove)
  2. Time saver
    1. In areas of the world women and children spend many hours collecting fuel wood for their cooking
    2. Enables mothers to take better care of their children
    3. Time to pursue making handicrafts for sale
  3. Nutritious food
    1. Retains nutritional value of the food-combats malnutrition
    2. Slow cooking produces tender digestible food
    3. Waterless cooking except for beans, rice, lentils
    4. No stirring is necessary in solar cooking
  4. Environmentally Friendly
    1. Reduces deforestation, erosion and soil infertility
    2. Solar energy is effective, nonpolluting, and inexhaustible
    3. Animals, birds, butterflies reppear, more abundant crops and cleaner air
  5. Reduces eye and lung disease and burns on children
    1. Solar cooker/ovens are pollution free
    2. Integrated cooking is virtually smokeless
    3. "Rocket" stoves use 75% less fuel, burn at high heat and are virtually smokeless
  6. Safe drinking water
    1. Solar cooker/ovens and "Rocket" stoves pasteurize water for safe drinking
    2. One billion children suffer from diarrhea caused by drinking contaminated water
    3. Five million die from water borne diseases each year
  7. Improves the economy
    1. Less injuries to children and women caused by using 3 stone open fires
    2. Environment conservation - reducing the destruction of forests and woodlands
  8. Improves the quality of family life and health
    1. Project empowers women to make improvements in the quality of life for themselves and their children - health, sanitation, and hygiene
    2. Planning and execution of project by women to meet their needs and to make it successful and sustainable
    3. Less time spent collecting food - children able to stay in school

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