CLEAN-Air(Africa) is delighted to announce its newest partnership with Faith Engineering in Kenya who are currently providing a new steam cooking solution powered by clean fuels including LPG, electricity and solar to schools and public institutions across Kenya. 

In Kenya and across sub-Saharan Africa, almost all schools rely on wood fuel and biomass for cooking with a typical school consuming approximately 250 metric tonnes of wood each year.  @CAA research (https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/09/study-reveals-extreme-air-pollution-in-african-schools-due-to-cooking/) has identified cooks and pupils resident at schools that are reliant on wood experience extremely high levels of exposure to health damaging particulate matter.

Faith Engineering has been tasked by the Kenyan government to transition up to 9000 public institutions to clean cooking with steam and @CLEAN-Air(Africa) are in discussions on how to evaluate the health, education and climate impacts from these transitions.

Last week in Nairobi CAA Directors Professor Daniel Pope and Dr James Mwitari, met with the founder of Faith Engineering (Wycliffe Otieno), to discuss how to maximise impact from the partnership in providing research evidence to key stakeholders in Kenya and East Africa to help scale clean cooking with steam for public institutions. 

Wycliffe and Pope are currently in discussions with CAA partner AGreatE, to provide a solar energy solution, including battery storage, to power steam cooking for an off grid option for institutional clean cooking in hard-to-reach contexts. 

Evaluation of a home solar energy ecosystem developed by AGreatE is currently being implemented by CLEAN-Air(Africa) under the MECS STARRS programme. For more information please contact the CAA Unit Programme Manager John Spafford: john.spafford@liverpool.ac.uk