Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves in Lake Atitlán

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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 project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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

Activities

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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,703
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,797
Total Funding Goal: $12,500

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

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.

Project Message

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andy Woods-Ballard
Director of Operations
1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Herts AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
00 44 870 608 8898
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Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor

Organization

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
GVI-Charitable Trust 1st Floor 3 High Street
St Albans, Herts. AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
44 (0) 870 608 8898
http://www.gvi.org.uk/

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in GuatemalaGuatemala and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green)Climate Change (GG Green).

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 28, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 4, 2008

Latest Update from the Field

More happy trees going into 2010

By Dom Williams - Director, December 28, 2009 10:55 AM

70 stoves were built in Guatemala this year, meaning that 70 more families will be able to cook without smoke and many more trees can look forward to still being in the ground in 2010, as less firewood is needed for the new stoves. To help this along, we also planted 10,000 trees. There are still 40 stoves to be built in Peña Blanca, that is our target for 2010.
cheers and Happy New Year
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