The IHF’s clean cookstove project continues to install stoves in the Kodaikanal area over seven years after its launch by the original IHF chapter at Dartmouth College and the Betsy Elizabeth Trust. The Smokeless Stove Project also provides medical assistance for families with respiratory illness caused by indoor air pollution.
IHF stoves reduce indoor concentrations of dangerous carbon monoxide gas by 76 percent, meaning healthier lungs and healthier lives for children. Since 2004, the
project has built over 750 smokeless stoves. In response to its long-term success, the IHF has begun to expand the program to other areas in the state of Tamil Nadu. The program has ventured into new territory both in India and in the US. Recent expansion into the village of Parayar will be continued with efforts to support a local clinic and dispensary, and students from Harvard Medical School are planning to work with the Smokeless Stove project in the summer of 2012.
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