Nafa Naana
Since 2012, Nafa Naana has been helping families in Burkina Faso who are struggling with energy poverty to access clean, modern, and affordable cooking and lighting solutions.
Clean energy to improve everyday life
In Burkina Faso, most families do not have access to electricity or gas. They still use battery-powered lamps, charcoal, or wood for cooking, with serious consequences:
- respiratory diseases linked to smoke,
- increased deforestation,
- budgets weakened by the rising cost of charcoal, batteries, or kerosene.
Women are on the front line: they do the cooking and spend long hours searching for fuel.
Nafa Naana offers a practical and accessible alternative: improved stoves, solar lamps, and other modern, robust, and economical equipment. To make them available even in remote areas, the team has developed a network of franchise dealers, partnerships with women’s associations and groups, as well as payment facilities and high-quality after-sales service.
These solutions improve health, reduce household expenses, and help preserve the environment.
Taking action despite difficult circumstances
In 2024, economic, political, and security instability in Burkina Faso slowed down activity: difficult travel, slowed distribution, increased poverty, halted public funding, and the inability to capitalize on carbon credits.
Despite everything, the team held firm: restructuring to protect staff, strengthening its local presence with nine new partners (42 in total) and diversifying its activities through calls for tenders and services based on its expertise in clean energy and CO₂.
What Nafa Naana is changing in concrete terms
Measurable results for health, family budgets, and the environment.
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3 045 equipped families
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2 245 t saved wood
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1 840 t CO2 avoided
Testimonial
Catherine tried several activities, such as hairdressing, before launching into the restaurant business with one goal in mind: to permanently free her family from the anxiety of not knowing what tomorrow would bring.
For a long time, I cooked with wood. Then I was able to buy a gas stove and a deposit with easy payment terms. This stove makes my work easier; it's fast, clean, and high quality. It has helped me a lot because I've been able to expand my offerings: now, starting at 6 a.m., I bake cakes before cooking meals. I currently employ four women, and my neighbors are happy too: I no longer bother them with smoke like I did when I cooked with wood.
They support Nafa Naana
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