Fuel Efficient, Life Saving Stoves for 40 Families
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What
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Affecting the indigenous families of rural Honduras, these stoves have many benefits:
1) Indoor wood smoke is a greater health issue than malaria, therefore are direct health benefits.
2) Burning fuel in a much more efficient manner they reduce CO2 emissions.
3) Using less fuel they in turn become an indirect income generation tool as villagers have to buy less fuel or spend less time collecting fuel.
4) They are also a tool for reduced cutting of forests for the same reason.
Activities
Working alongside international volunteers from GVI, this project will train 4 local tradesmen to produce 40 fuel efficient stoves.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $3,000
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $18,916
Total Funding Goal: $21,916
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Resources
Why
Potential Long Term Impact
Trained locals will train others and due to efficiency of the stoves they pay for themselves within a relatively short time. With the 40 there to demonstrate this, they will quickly become the norm. This will have huge health impacts for the kids.
Project Message
The people want to use less wood to cook though cannot afford the stoves so they are in a lose-lose cycle, they either cut down more trees or buy more wood to cook in an unhealthy, uneconomic manner.
- Enrique Carrillo, Community liaison
When
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 06, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 04, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
More stoves built in Honduras
By Dom Williams - Latin American Project Director, August 06, 2008 06:12 PM
As the year moves into the final third, we have managed to build many stoves in the community around Copán. We have also trained up a local mason to be able to help us build more and bring the project more sustainable. Over the coming year we hope to have all the houses with the new stoves and be able to move into another community aswell. The difference in the lifestyles of the recipients so far has been monumental,with health issues decreasing.
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