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Climate Change (GG Green) > Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves in Lake Atitlán (#2466)
Summary
Helping local indigenous communities in Guatemala, especially Peña Blanca, to install carbon efficient stoves which use less firewood and allow the community health, educational and financial benefits
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The stoves, used in place of the three stone fire, have multiple benefits. They reduce carbon emissions, local de-forestation and lung desease, improve air quality in the home and health for local families and allow increased time and energies for local families to be spent on education, employment and micro-enterprises
The stoves take 2 to 3 days to build depending upon skill, experience and location. The stoves have an estimated life of 15 to 25 years. The benefits of each stove can be applied for that duration, and the decrease on deforestation for longer.
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,703
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,797
Total Funding Goal: $12,500
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
With less trees cut down for firewood, less time spent by children searching for firewood, the necessity that to receive a stove, the family must send their children to school and obvious health benefits, the long-term impact is quantifiable.
When I first spent time with the kids during 2007, most of the kids had a heart-wrenching cough. The stoves are helping to decrease this but threre are many more families to reach.
- Joy Peterson, WPF, Director
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This project is located in Guatemala
and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green).
For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.
This project was last updated on December 28, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 4, 2008
By Dom Williams - Director, December 28, 2009 10:55 AM
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