CCASClean Cooking · Somalia
The fire has a name.
Stories from the kitchens that CCAS work touches — and the kitchens that we still haven’t reached. Long-form. Photo-led. Each piece is named, dated and reviewed by the people in it before publication. We don’t romanticise smoke. We don’t hide failure either.
Six pieces this quarter.
In reverse chronological order. Tagged by region or by pillar. Always bilingual (EN / SO).
The fourteenth Tuesday in Halima’s kitchen
What happened in the six months after Banadir Stoves delivered Tier-3 unit #1,200 — including the two we had to replace and one we’ll never replace.
Read · 12 minWhat the cooperatives keep teaching us
Three years of women’s-cooperative training weeks in Bay region, told through five recurring conversations we did not expect to have.
Read · 16 minCohort 02 of stove-technician certification, day by day
Twelve technicians, five days, two failed assessments, one second chance. The full classroom journal.
Read · 18 minWhat 80 sensors are telling us about Banadir air
The first three months of PM2.5 data from the national sensor network — including the night the readings tripled and we figured out why.
Read · 14 minThe forty-second open-kitchen evening
Saturday at Asha Warsame’s open kitchen — a household-ambassador story, a story about neighbours, a story about why the open-kitchen format works.
Read · 10 minA charcoal trader, an MSME founder, the same village
What the transition looks like from the side that is currently paying for it. A conversation that took us four months to arrange.
Read · 22 minIf you live near the fire,
we want to hear from you.
CCAS publishes member-led narratives, photo essays, technician journals and donor-funded fieldwork — provided every named person reviews and signs off before publication. Three editors, twenty-four hour response, no fee. Pitches in English or Somali both welcome.
Continue · across CCAS
Newsroom
Short, dated programme updates and member spotlights — the news, not the long form.
The coalition
Every story features someone — find them, follow them, support them.
Awareness
The working group that runs the radio drama and the open-kitchen network.
Media kit
For journalists building on these stories — assets, fact sheet, press line.