Every year four million people die prematurely from the results of inhaling smoke from cooking, with women worst affected.

A fifth of the world’s population live without access to electricity.

For women and girls, that means lost opportunities to study or work in the evening, keeping them trapped in poverty.

Instead they use kerosene.

The World Bank estimates that breathing kerosene fumes is the equivalent of smoking two packets of cigarettes a day.

Yet two-thirds of adult women with lung cancer in developing nations are non-smokers.

Household pollution is the second biggest cause of women’s deaths after childbirth.

That’s why I am taking part in Ashden’s campaign to raise awareness of women's need for clean, safe energy.

Please join me: http://www.ashden.org/blog/volts-women