With your support, EcoLogic will build and install at least 500 fuel-efficient stoves in family homes in 2026. Traditional cooking fires consume large amounts of firewood and expose families, especially women and children, to harmful smoke. These improved stoves reduce respiratory illness, lower firewood use, and help protect nearby forests, creating healthier homes and more resilient landscapes.
Smoke from traditional stoves threatens the health of women and children and is one of the leading causes of death in the developing world. These stoves also require greater firewood consumption, resulting in the degradation of critical tropical forests. EcoLogic will work with participating families living near to build fuel-efficient stoves, reducing respiratory illness in the home and conserving forests by reducing the demand for firewood.
The project will reduce deforestation and soil degradation typically caused by firewood harvesting and consumption by providing technical assistance for the construction of 500 new fuel-efficient stoves, which includes training, conducting learning exchanges between new and established user communities to share experiences of early adopter communities, and obtaining a commitment from participating households to engage in longer-term forest stewardship.
In addition to health benefits for individual families, we hope to conserve forests by reducing firewood consumption in Sarstun, Ixcan, and Totonicapan. Training and empowering the communities will help ensure long-term sustainable management of their natural resources.
