By Dr. LeRoy Boikai | President/CEO
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our donors who are helping us to introduce and promote clean cooking technology in rural Liberia. VIP is seeking to help create a shift toward the distribution and use of cleaner and more advanced cookstoves and fuels that will help slow the rapid deforestation of Liberia's dense rainforest as well as empower women and children who bear the responsibility of gathering firewood and cooking.
As stated in our last report in October, the Liberian presidential election which should have concluded in November was postponed to December 26, 2017, for the run-off. We anticipate a peaceful conclusion to the election so that in January, our planned trip to Liberia will take place. While in Liberia, we will introduce the rocket stove technology using two purchased stoves to conduct a kitchen performance test and the water boiling test that will demonstrate the effect of stove intervention on household fuel consumption and to compare the energy performance of cookstoves versus traditional open fire cooking methods.
At the conclusion of our visit to Liberia in February, we will share more information with you about the cookstove intervention field tests, the distribution of solar lanterns to more villages as well as the distribution of Panasonic's 360 donated solar lanterns to school teachers, rural health clinic workers, and orphanages..
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