COVE: Cooking stove designed to cater refugee kitchens in order to reduce waste, deforestation rate and to improve their behavioral pattern while enhancing sustainability.

Abstract

Research shows that one of the pertinent problems of the refugees living in northern areas of Pakistan, is the absence of daily life necessities such as electricity and gas. This makes them resort to cutting down trees for their cooking purposes. It is certainly a dilemma for the people that are deprived of these resources, as it is old fashioned, tiring, and time consuming. The resources that are readily available to the refugees living in those parts are all natural such as trees, biomass and sometimes coal. So, to bridge the gap between their traditional methods and already available resources, we have devised a product that would help these people in overcoming their persistence of outdated methods. As an outcome of the research, a cooking stove with a unique design that utilizes biomass for power is proposed. Our aim is to make our product sustainable and user-friendly for these people. It will allow them to cook without any hassle, while being environmentally conscious by utilizing the waste material. We believe in going green while improving the standard of living of the people that use this stove. By using this cooking stove, it will drastically lower the rate of environmental pollution as well as halt the deforestation process in those areas respectively.