By Monica Alvarez Malvido | Special and Innovation Project Officer
Dear friends of Sustainable Rural Life,
We are happy to inform you that in December 2016 we installed 10 more clean-cookstoves in a remote indigenous (totonaco) community called Atlequizayan located in northern Puebla.
With the support of the community leader Cirila Rodríguez Pérez, the beneficiaries were instructed in the use of the new ecotecnology. The stove model is called “Tuya” and is made of concrete and contains a “rocket” combustion chamber that allows saving up to 60% of the firewood commonly used. It also prevents the users from breathing polluted air from the open fires.
Families in the community were very satisfied with FMCN´s support as they had never received this type of donation before. From the moment of delivery and training, they began to use their new clean-cookstoves. Even two families stopped using open fires immediately!
"Thanks to the Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature ten families were benefited by the Tuya stove in the town of Atlequizayan, Puebla. With the new clean-cookstoves, we will be contributing in taking care of the environment by reducing firewood consumption and improving beneficiaries’ health by eliminating indoor pollution” (Cirila Rodríguez Pérez).
Sustainable Rural Life closed 2016 with a total of 110 clean-cookstoves installed in Puebla, Mexico. The following months we will focus our efforts in monitoring the use of these new stoves and in fundraising for more ecotecnologies in Puebla and other states of Mexico. We need your support to increase the number of these ecotecnologies that can change the life of rural women in Mexico!
Thank you for your interest and support,
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