Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves in Lake Atitlán

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Energy Efficient Cooking Stoves in Lake Atitlán

Summary

Helping local indigenous communities in Guatemala, especially Peña Blanca, to install carbon efficient stoves which use less firewood and allow the community health, educational and financial benefits

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	$10 - Cooking pot for the family
	$28 - Local mason's salary to build the stove
	$50 - Bricks and mortar for 1 stove
	$100 - Hotplate and chimney for 1 stove
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The stoves, used in place of the three stone fire, have multiple benefits. They reduce carbon emissions, local de-forestation and lung desease, improve air quality in the home and health for local families and allow increased time and energies for local families to be spent on education, employment and micro-enterprises

Activities

The stoves take 2 to 3 days to build depending upon skill, experience and location. The stoves have an estimated life of 15 to 25 years. The benefits of each stove can be applied for that duration, and the decrease on deforestation for longer.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $280
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $12,220
Total Funding Goal: $12,500

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

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

With less trees cut down for firewood, less time spent by children searching for firewood, the necessity that to receive a stove, the family must send their children to school and obvious health benefits, the long-term impact is quantifiable.

Project Message

When I first spent time with the kids during 2007, most of the kids had a heart-wrenching cough. The stoves are helping to decrease this but threre are many more families to reach.
- Joy Peterson, WPF, Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andy Woods-Ballard,
Director of Operations
1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Herts AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
00 44 870 608 8898
Email:

Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust

Organization

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
GVI-Charitable Trust
1st Floor 3 High Street
St Albans, Herts. AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
44 (0) 870 608 8898
http://www.gvi.org.uk/

Learn more about Global Vision International Charitable Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Environment.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 14, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 04, 2008.

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