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Clean Cooking, Clear Facts: Busting Myths for a Healthier Home

🍲 Cooking is an everyday activity — but how we cook impacts our health and environment.

This animated explainer video reveals the powerful benefits of clean cooking and debunks common myths that prevent many families from switching to safer options.

🌬️ Say goodbye to harmful indoor air pollution caused by traditional chulhas and biomass fuels.
✅ Embrace clean cooking solutions like LPG, solar cookers, and induction stoves for healthier homes.

In this video, learn:

How clean cooking protects your health and reduces environmental pollution
Why clean cooking is affordable and can save you money in the long run
How LPG, solar, and induction stoves suit all types of Indian cooking

💬 Make the switch to clean cooking today — for better health, cleaner air, and more quality time with your family.

📢 Share this video to raise awareness and help families breathe cleaner air.

🎥 Part of the ‘Clean Air & Better Health Project’ — supporting healthier households across India.

Credits:

USAID – From the American People
Asar
CEEW – The Council

The Hidden Danger in Our Homes: How Clean Cooking Can Save Lives

Meet Rajesh, Renu, and Kumar — a family like millions of others across India, unknowingly exposed to a serious health hazard inside their own home.

This animated short film sheds light on the deadly threat of household air pollution caused by traditional cooking fuels like wood, coal, dung, and crop waste. These practices contribute to severe health issues such as asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, eye irritation, and complications during pregnancy.

But the problem goes beyond indoor smoke — it merges with outdoor pollution to create a harmful mix that especially affects women and children.

What Can Families Do?

Switch to clean cooking fuels like LPG, induction cookers, or solar cookers
Improve kitchen ventilation for safer air
Spread awareness in your community to protect more families

Change begins at home. Your choices can protect your loved ones and inspire healthier, cleaner environments everywhere.

This film is part of the ‘Clean Air & Better Health Project’, a collaborative effort by:

USAID – From the American People
Asar
CEEW – The Council on Energy, Environment and Water

No Escape from Smoke: Rama’s Fight for Clean Air in Delhi’s Slums

Every day, Rama, a 39-year-old ASHA worker in Delhi, witnesses a silent but deadly health crisis — smoke rising not from traffic, but from traditional brick stoves (chulhas) inside homes. Women and children living in urban slums are exposed to toxic indoor air pollution caused by cooking smoke, putting their health and lives at serious risk.

This compelling short film, created by Warrior Moms in collaboration with Turtle on a Hammock Films and The Quint, highlights the urgent need to address indoor air pollution in India’s most vulnerable communities.

Key Issues Explored:

Millions still lack access to clean cooking fuel
Women and children disproportionately suffer from toxic household smoke
Health consequences include chronic respiratory diseases, heart conditions, and long-term developmental impacts

Indoor air pollution is a preventable public health crisis — one that demands immediate attention and action to prioritize clean cooking solutions over policy delays.

Watch Rama’s story to understand the human face of indoor air pollution. Share widely to amplify this critical issue and join the demand for clean air in every kitchen.

🔗 Watch The Quint video here
🔗 The Quint – youtube channel