By Gift BritonMore than 50,000 primary and secondary schools operate in Kenya, with over 90% still using firewood to prepare meals. Q: Why is Kenya starting this clean cooking transition with schools? Kenya has over 10 million school-going children, making schools the country’s biggest drivers of firewood demand and its worst destroyers of forests. Instead of sending dollars abroad to pay for imported fuel, schools pay Kenya Power, and that supports our own economy. Kenya already has several local manufacturers producing institutional cooking technologies, alongside a few international companies that have introduced their products in the country.