Low Tech/High Impact Cookstoves for Moroccan Women

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Summary

Fuel-efficient cook stoves and ovens made from clay reduce women's hard labor for firewood collection, diminish harmful smoke, protect the environment, make time for more education & income generation progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,870 was raised for this project.

Received $1,870 from 15 donations from people like:

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Kate Eisenberg
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Moroccan girls as young as 8 and women as old as 60 spend as much as 120 hours finding firewood for essential cooking and heating. Simple clay appliances can reduce this labor & decrease wood consumption by 50% (30,000+ tons of wood saved annually in 7 villages alone). Reduce health hazards & premature aging; increase enthusiasm/energy for education; make more time for income generating activities.

Activities

Provide fuel-efficient cook stoves and baking ovens to Berber village women in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains. Train local women leaders to teach other women & girls their use. Reinforce education/self-improvement & supplemental income.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,870

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,870.  The original project funding goal was $1,870.

Additional Documentation

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

Demonstration that simple changes can signficantly improve quality of life for entire families. Far-reaching impact for continuing female education. Reversal of environmental degradation. Model for widespread replication.

Project Message

Before the project "I lived in total ignorance and had no hope that conditions could improve for either myself or my children."
- Fanna Aguerchaw, Woman leader from Iminoulaoune Rural Commune

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Roger Hardister,
Regional Director, Near East Foundation
4, Ahmed Pasha Street
Citi Bank Building, 11th Floor
Garden City, Cairo, Egypt
Egypt
+(20) 20-2-7944726
Email:

Project Sponsor

Near East Foundation

Organization

Near East Foundation (NEF)
90 Broad Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10004
United States
+1 (212) 425-2205
http://www.neareast.org

Learn more about Near East Foundation (NEF) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Morocco and can also be found under Education.

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 30, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 06, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Cook stoves and bake ovens distributed to 20 families

By Sarah Atwood - Development Associate, January 30, 2008 06:06 PM

Last week, field staff began distributing 40 cook stoves and bake ovens to 20 families in two villages - Ait Aafan and Tamzrite. Distribution was followed after a session on the personal and environmental consequences of using biomass fuel and demonstrating installation techniques.

Four additional training sessions on the use of the cook stoves will take place in February, in coordination with a public awareness campaign to better sensitize the community as a whole on the use of cook stoves and bake ovens. It is anticipated that the project will be completed by early March 2008.

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