Fuel Efficient, Life Saving Stoves for 40 Families

Summary

Train local tradesmen to produce fuel-efficient stoves for 40 rural Honduran families, improving the health of approximately 500 people in the first year and increasing long-term income potential.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

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.

How will this project solve this problem?

Working alongside international volunteers from GVI, this project will train 4 local tradesmen to produce 40 fuel efficient stoves.

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

Additional Documentation

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

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