Greetings. The project at the lake has had an excellent year and to start fundraising for next year, I will be embarking on a Charity Challenge, climbing 4 volcanoes in 6 days, so please, if you can, spare a penny or two to help raise funds for such a good cause.
cheers

From 18th July, a group from Canada will be joining us to build up to 7 stoves in Peña Blanca, which is amazing. When you couple this with the fact that we have just planted 10,000 in our other projects, then the future of the environment and also the future of the families who before had to breath in the smoke each day, is secured.

The stoves we are building in the community not only perform their main function: cooking. There is so much more; they use less firewood, they reduce smoke inhilation to almost zero and they are built so small children cannot fall into the fire or burn themselves on boiling water. We plan to build 50 stoves in 2009 to add to the many we built last year, and with your support we can definately reach this goal.

Pictures:

• The stove takes shape (JPG)
• Cooking tortillas on the stove - no smoke,no open fire! (JPG)
• Multi-purpose stoves (JPG)

As we welcome in 2009, the community is gearing up for the second wave of stove-building. Our aim is to build 50 this year, adding to the stoves we built last year. As with all our work, this is one community of many, all with the same need, so the future involves 100s of stoves to be built...our work is certainly cut out for us and thanks to your support, we can reach our targets.