The southern Volta Region is typically coastal savanna and has a general low density of woody plants and hence does not have an abundance of fuelwood. The project was to build the capacity of 25 communities in the southern Volta to construct Fuel Efficient Woodsaving Stoves (FEWS).The adoption rate and use of the FEW stoves was low (less than 40 %) although trainees always described the stoves as useful in the sense that they consumed less fuelwood, produced less smokes and does not burn the user and is unlikely to cause a fire. NGO was to develop ingenious ways to popularise the stove to improve adoption.