Clean Cooking for Nigeria’s Families

My name is EMANUEL , and I want to share a story that has shaped my purpose…

and the purpose of Fola Nature Oy. Some time ago, I visited a community in Nigeria where

families were cooking with charcoal and firewood, just as they have for generations.

Inside one small kitchen, smoke filled the air so heavily that I could barely see

across the room. But the mother cooking inside… she stood there every day, breathing that smoke,

simply because she had no other option. That moment stayed with me. Because her story

is not unique — 80 million households in Nigeria face the same reality. And every year,

nearly 100,000 lives are cut short because of smoke from cooking. I realized something: this is not just