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In rural Kenya, the social burdens around cooking over an open fire can lead to women having to walk over 10 miles just to collect one 60 pound bundle of wood for cooking. This is difficult work that requires hours of collecting wood, subjects them and their children to severe health risks and can drain a family economically and a community environmentally.
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Episode 1: Woodwalk from The Paradigm Project on Vimeo.
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