From Sola Ojo, Kaduna
The Executive Vice Chairman of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Prof. Mohammad Haruna said the recently donated 3,000 ‘save 80 efficient cook stoves’ to widows, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other indigent women across the country by the agency was part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He added that the stoves, which were designed and manufactured by Atmosfair, a firm based in Germany in collaboration with NASENI, were also aimed at mitigating climate change and at the same time making cooking easy for the beneficiaries.
The NASENI boss, who stated this at the unveiling of the stoves in Kaduna, promised to extend the gesture to more women across the nation’s six geopolitical zones under the agency’s corporate social responsibility.
Haruna who stated that he believed that the gesture would improve the agency’s eco-friendliness and carbon footprint further noted that the donation would make positive contribution to climate change.
“Some of these stoves will be handed over to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development for distribution to IDPs and flood victims. The use of energy-efficient cooking stoves provides a high potential for emission reduction. The production of these stoves is also a viable, self-sustaining and revenue-generating venture which will create thousands of employments. We are duplicating manufacturing facility for both the stoves and the briquettes from agric wastes. The products will be manufactured simultaneously at Kano and Agada village of Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State,” he added.