Our commitment


Prakti Design envisions a world where people live healthy lives - a world where needs as basic as cooking meals are not performed in life-threatening, empoverishing conditions. It seeks to cultivate an efficient use of energy that empowers women, create local opportunities, and preserves the environment.


Every day half of the world's population have their meals cooked on traditional biomass cookstoves. Traditional cookstoves result in tremendous health, economic, environmental, and daily-life burdens that are mostly beard by women and children.

Open fire in Tibet Over 1.9 million people die every year because of the smoke and fumes of their cooking fires; 85% of them are women and children.

Women carrying wood Households can spend up to 40% of their income, or family members up to 20h per week, to pay for or collect woodfuel.

Deforestation Over 4 million tons of wood are burned for cooking and 4 million tons of CO2 rejected into the atmosphere everyday.

Learn more on the issues raised by traditionnal cooking fires