Indian women switch to cleaner cooking For hundreds of millions of Indian women, cooking the family meal is a daily, dangerous chore. Sweating over smoky open stoves they put their lives and their children at risk every day. But some are benefiting from a scheme providing cleaner, more efficient stoves. It’s part of a global initiative backed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to provide 100 million clean cookstoves to the homes of those who need them -- an estimated three billion people or 40 percent of the world's population. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.