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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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: $1,009
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $11,491
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
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Project Sponsor
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/
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Guatemala
and can also be found under 
Climate Change (GG Green).
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 19, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 4, 2008
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By Dom - Director, November 19, 2009 04:47 PM
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