The stove maker from Mozambique

Maluana is 63 years old, he has been modelling clay for almost 50 years. Making pottery and art. In 2011 the environmental organisation Livaningo approached him with a business idea. Livaningo was looking for people to make efficient cookstoves. Now Maluana has increased his income by 200 percent and at the same time saving the last forests around Maputo. Nearly 500 million households -- roughly 3 billion people, or 42 percent of the world’s population -- rely on burning materials such as wood, animal du