KILNS Fund

KILNS Fund is establishing a $20,000 fund that will allow poor rural entrepreneur/manufacturers in the Kakamega forest region of Kenya to substantially increase the manufacturing and marketing of super fuel efficient stoves. These stoves--known as 'quick stoves'--are an ingenious and affordable design made of readily available local clay that burn 40% less wood than a traditional cooking fire.

By providing funding to improve the stove production facilities, KILNS Fund seeks to increase employment for villagers living near the Kakamega Forest, help conserve the remarkable Kakamega rainforest, reduce carbon emissions, reduce smoke inhalation from cooking fires, and help create conditions that will entice local rural youth to live in their home region rather than migrate to cities where many of them will end up living in urban squatter slums.

KILNS Fund works directly with a cutting edge organization on the ground in Kenya called Eco2librium, a group dedicated to saving forests and reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Claudia Damon, KILNS Fund project director, is a retired attorney from New Hampshire who became captivated by the challenges of local villagers living near the Kakamega forest while visiting her sister, a biology professor at Columbia University, who has been conducting research in the Kakamega forest for many years. After lengthy conversations with local groups already making and selling quick stoves, she realized she could make an important contribution by helping them develop their manufacturing capabilities and scale up their businesses.

Visions Made Viable is delighted to serve Claudia and her partners in Kenya through fiscal sponsorship, administrative services and consulting.

You can make a tax deductible contribution to KILNS Fund by using the 'Donate' button below, or you can send a check payable to 'KILNS Fund' to:

Visions Made Viable
17595 Harvard Ave.
Suite C235
Irvine, CA  92614

Be sure to save the email you receive from PayPal as your receipt. Contributions made to or for KILNS Fund are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. KILNS Fund and its fiscal sponsor, Visions Made Viable, provide no goods or services for your contribution.