About 80 million people live in humanitarian conditions globally – due to conflicts, or natural calamities, forced to live in temporary shelters, sometimes separated from their families. The food that is given out as aid most often needs to be cooked before it can be consumed, and inadequate addressing of energy needs of refugees puts the burden of collecting fuel on women, who often endanger themselves to collect wood to use and sometimes sell to make additional income. In DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) clean cookstoves have been helping women rely less on wood and even make sustainable livelihoods for themselves. Read more here.