FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — For years, Hawa Augusta Kamah, a cook at a private school here, spent hours every week in a cramped open-air kitchen toiling over large charcoal-burning stoves preparing food for 600 students. With every breath, she inhaled smoke and ignored the uncomfortable feeling in her chest that would grow more intense the longer she was exposed to the heat emanating from the stoves.
Getting a silent killer out of the kitchen
In Sierra Leone, 99 percent of the population still uses polluting cooking methods
By Allyson Chiu
May 12, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT