Dual-purpose jiko cooks food and warms up chicks’ house

Rosemary Maina, one the beneficiaries of the stoves at her home in Losogwa village, Nyahururu. The energy efficient jiko works in such a way that the heat that is used for cooking also warms up the chicks brooder. [PHOTOS: JAMES MUNYEKI]

Thomas Gichuru was out to make a difference. Passionate about clean energy and conserving the environment, he invented an energy-saving jiko that cut firewood usage significantly, but the people he presented it to wanted more.

He took up the challenge, and the chick-rearing cooking stove was born.