The document discusses Prakti Design, a company that develops improved cookstoves. It notes hundreds of millions of people, mostly women, spend hours daily cooking with inefficient stoves using biomass fuels, resulting in millions of deaths and diseases from indoor air pollution each year. Prakti Design aims to address this issue through user-centered stove design, making stoves affordable through microloans, and targeting multiple user segments. Its goal is to improve health, save lives, reduce fuel and emissions, and reach profitability by 2015 through operations in several countries.