Millions of women in India begin every day spending hours collecting cow dung and then patting bits of it into flat cakes before leaving it to dry in the sun.
The dry cow dung cakes are used as solid fuel to cook in indoor stoves.
These stoves spew a number of hazardous gases like Carbon monoxide, the leading cause of Tuberculosis, Lung cancer a variety of respiratory diseases.
It is estimated that about 800,000 people die every year in south Asia from the use of these indoor stoves.
Nick Porter shoots with these women from a village just outside Delhi as they scoop out bits of maggot infested cow dung and pat them into flat cakes.
1 comment:
Dear Mr.Sundaram
I would like to know more about the pic of Nick Porter with the Delhi women collecting cow dung..well the interest will be obvious when i say more about me...iam Nisha,a correspondent with the Delhi-based environmental magazine Down to earth...currently we are working on domestic fuel especially cow dung cakes ..it will be of immense help if you could help me with just the details of the place...like where exactly in Delhi it is..looking forward to a very positive response..
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