BECOME A SMOKE FIGHTER
Save The Planet & Empower Women.
Clean Cookstove Solutions That :
Reduce CO Emissions 95%
Protect Local Traditions
Cut Family Fuel Costs in Half
1 In 3 Humans
Risk Respiratory Disease
Just From Cooking
Smoke from traditional biomass cookstoves:
Kills 3.24 million people each year
Pollutes 4 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day
Impacts climate change equally to the airline industry
Damages families’ lungs as much as
smoking 2 packs of cigarettes each day
Not All Food is Created Equally!
Food connects everyone around the world. We all love eating and sharing food with our loved ones. However, 2.4 Billion people have no choice but to cook on dangerous and polluting stoves in order to feed their families.
Empower Women With
Prakti Air Cookstove Modifiers
Frees Up Women’s Time
Prakti Air reduces cooking time by up to 3 hours per day*. This means women can choose to spend more time on education, with their family or simply to have more fun! It also saves another 45 hours per month from collecting wood because 50%* less fuel is needed with Prakti Air. Total 135hours per month saved!
Saves Families Money Every Week
With families needing only half of the fuel to cook their meals, the average family will save $11* extra each week using their Prakti Air. That’s more money in their pockets to spend or invest how they like.
Revolutionizes Cookstove Adoption
Prakti Air allows families to keep using their treasured stoves, often passed down generations. The device fits into existing stoves, resulting in a dramatic decrease in emissions and an increase in fuel efficiency. The local culture is respected, traditions are preserved and user adoption is fully maximized.
* The values listed in this section are from Prakti Air field tests and give a much more complete and honest picture of how the stove will perform in the real world. Other stove companies only promote lab values (often not a good representation of the truth).
Prakti's expertise is recognized by development agencies worldwide.
The largest cookstove provider for the UN Food Agency in India.
Awarded the “Clinton Global Initiative” prize for our work in Haiti.
President Bill Clinton awarding Prakti’s founder Mouhsine Serrar the Clinton Global Initiative Prize
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20,000 stoves sold in 14 countries
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66% reduction in wood use
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95% reduction in CO
Our well-respected partners
Prakti is proud to partner with Google, Engineers without Borders, Imperial College London, Ernst & Young, IIT Chennai, and many others. We use our partnerships to grow our community and to do our part in training the next generation of workers.
Awards and Testimonials
Grand Challenges - Canada 2014
Stove design innovation
Prize: $100,000
Royal Academy of Engineering - UK 2019
Next generation stoves.
Prize: £50,000
UN Foundation - 2014
Stove design innovation in Bangladesh.
Prize: $75,000
DFID (UK) - 2012
Design and Distribution Innovation Award
1st Prize $200,000
“Today, Prakti is considered the best household charcoal stove in Haiti with best performance, durability, usability, and appeal.”
-International Lifeline Fund, Haiti
“Trees are sadly disappearing from Nepal's Himalayan hills, leading to soil erosion and landslides, so a reduced fuel wood (due to Prakti) burden is a major benefit.”
-Child Welfare Scheme, Nepal
Our Impact
We’ve already impacted 500,000 lives across 14 countries.
Our team of world-class engineers have worked in the field for over a decade, fighting smoke and transforming lives by providing cookstoves in countries including:
India: 17,000 families, 50 schools and restaurants
Haiti: 500 schools and 2000 families
Sudan, North and East Darfur: 200,000 students and staff
Democratic Republic of Congo: 3000 families
Nepal and Bangladesh: 800 families
Saved 3/4 of A Million Trees
Prevented 1/3 of Million Tons of CO2
More Than $6 Million of Users Saved
7 Years of User Time Liberated
*All values based on a conservative analysis.
Introducing The Prakti Air
A Clean Cookstove Revolution
85% User Adoption.
Totally Unrivalled.
Prakti Air Transforms Traditional Stoves Easily
Fits into existing cookstoves, so users don’t have to shift culture/recipes.
Highly affordable ($25 Retail)
Low weight and volume, easily transportable
Huge Benefits to User Experience:
65% Less Cooking Time
66% Less Wood Used
95% Less Smoke
100% More Enjoyable
Feedback From Users of the Prakti Air
Over the course of 2022 the prakti air underwent 4 pilot launches in diverse ecosystems across SE Asia. In this video we captured the glowing reviews of users in Kakhli a rural village in Himachal Pradesh.
Here’s what cooks say!
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“ I cooked chapati on it and it was great! Hotter and much less smoke”
-Suman
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"I cooked a meal for 14 people using two Prakti Air Chulha and it saved me lots of time and effort"
-Dipti
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“We used to get headaches from the smoke and from blowing on the fire, not anymore”
-Rekha
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"Now I can sit comfortably next to the stove and cook"
-Sharda
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“I am shocked at how much less smoke there is while using Prakti Air."
-Chandra
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"It makes food very fast with less smoke and less wood"
-Shapna
Help Us Help Them.
Woman conduct 91% of the work to obtain fuel and cook.
Women account for over 60% of the deaths from HAP.
*HAP = Household Air Pollution
Deep Understanding of User Struggles
Our singular focus on deeply understanding our users' struggles and problems makes us unique designers. Armed with this insight, we then design our products to address their issues & delight them with a powerful stove!
We have many assets that enable us to execute, including a world-class multi-disciplinary staff, modern in-house engineering labs, and our philosophy of using user feedback for refining designs (via rapid prototyping & field testing.)
Our Full Product Range
We offer a range of products to cater to a wide variety of local requirements. All our products have been designed from 15 years of on-the-ground user feedback and testing to produce products that local cooks love.
Prakti Air
Prakti’s latest stove with best-in-class performance has our patented forced draft technology. Users can retrofit their existing traditional stove bodies to become forced-draft stoves. 66% less fuel required and 95% less PM and CO emitted. Currently in pilot phase in slums in Kolkata, and Baru Sahib, India. Learn more here.
Prakti Charcoal Stove
The clean cooking sector has neglected charcoal stoves, and Prakti is the first to design a modern charcoal stove. We have deployed them in Haiti and DR Congo. This stove also attracts BBQ enthusiasts around the world. If you would also like to live your best BBQ dreams, add your name to the waitlist for our currently sold-out product.
Prakti Wood Single Burner
High-performance natural draft stove, designed for usability (door size), cost (minimal tooling, local production), and maximum durability (100% stainless steel). Stove deployed in India.
Prakti Wood Double Burner
During our time in Tamil Nadu, we observed that a meal consisted of two separate dishes, cooked one after the other. We designed a stove that draws inspiration from the user's cooking experience, resulting in a design that can simultaneously cook two dishes.
Prakti Institutional (40L, 80L, 200L)
From Sudan to Haiti, the Institutional stove is the most popular with the World Food Program. Prakti has been their largest stove supplier since 2012. The institutional stove comes in three sizes; the 40 L can cook for 100 people, 80 L for 200, and 200 L for 500.
Become A Smoke Fighter Today!
3 ways you can make a difference:
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Donate a stove
All it takes is $20 to fund a cooking stove for one family and dramatically change their quality of life! Support us by donating below.
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Buy a charcoal stove
Now you can own our award-winning BBQ stove for $149! We are currently sold out due to popular demand. Join our waitlist below.
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Volunteer
If our mission excites you, come volunteer for us. We have many exciting opportunities for students and professionals.
