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Nairobi Startup Pushes Cleaner Home Cooking Fuel

Mohammad Yusuf

   NAIROBI, KENYA -- Catherine Mutua she has always used charcoal and gas
   to cook for her young family.

   But, the source of energy she grew up with was becoming too expensive.
   She found out that she can also cook with another kind of fuel,
   ethanol.

   "Before I was using the gas and charcoal," Mutua said. "I shifted after
   I was educated how the fuel is cheap, safe for the kids, for the
   environment."

   Mutua gets the ethanol from a filling station set up by the Koko
   Networks, a Nairobi-based start-up. The company also sells ethanol
   stoves that cost a customer about $70.

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