RELOCATION specialist HCR is throwing its support behind a project to provide improved cooking stoves for communities across Uganda.

HCR’s core business is to help multi-national businesses relocate staff around the UK and across the world.

And the Basing View-based firm is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by finding more sustainable ways of working.

George Dawes, environmental manager at HCR, is also a board member of the Sustainable Business Partnership, which aids companies in Hampshire who want to work in a greener way and increase profitability as a result.

George said: “For the past few years, in addition to finding more sustainable ways of working, we’ve been offsetting our carbon footprint by funding an equivalent carbon dioxide saving elsewhere.

“We choose initiatives, through Carbon Footprint Ltd, that will benefit communities across the world.

“And, in this case, we are helping to improve the circumstances of families in Uganda.

“More than 95 per cent of Ugandans rely on solid fuels for cooking. This project reduces green-house emissions by providing fuel-efficient stoves. It contributes to sustainable development and mothers and children are exposed to fewer pollutants.”