Retrofit Dirty 2-Stroke Vehicles in Philippines
Reduce emission in Philippines
Summary
Promote the use of retrofitted two-stroke vehicles by Filipino taxi drivers. These vehicles significantly reduce emissions and fuel consumption and enable drivers to save money and increase income.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,394 was raised for this project. |
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The 1.8 million two-stroke vehicles in the Philippines produce the pollution equivalent of 5 billion automobiles. 1.3 million taxi drivers & millions of working class Filipinos rely on them for income/transportation respectively. Our retrofit dramatically reduces emissions: carbon monoxide 76%, carbon dioxide 35%, & hydrocarbon 89%. In addition, fuel consumption is reduced by 35%, oil consumption by 50%. This increased fuel efficiency saves taxi drivers $500 per year, a 33% increase in income.
Activities
Envirofit currently has pilot projects in 3 historic/tourist cities: Vigan, Puerto Princesa, and Boracay. These projects aim to retrofit nearly 4000 vehicles. We are looking to replicate this project throughout the Philippines and to other countries.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,394
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 $5,394 . The original project funding goal was $460,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Our 3 pilot projects will ANNUALLY remove 127,000 automobile equivalents of pollution and infuse $1.1 million dollars into the local economy. We expect incidence of respiratory disease to decline with an improvement in the drivers’ quality of life.
Project Message
After 6 months of using Envirofit’s kit I was able to save up enough money to use as matching funds for a housing grant. I rebuilt my home & my neighbor’s home, which provided housing for 6 families!
- Rolando Santiago, Envirofit field test participant
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Jamie Whitlock
Marketing Communications Manager
430 North College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80523
United States
(970)-491-4788
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Envirofit International Ltd
109 North College Avenue Suite 200
Fort Collins,
CO
80524
United States
(970) 372-2874
http://www.envirofit.org
Where this Project is Located
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Philippines
and can also be found under
Environment.
For more information about Philippines, read the Human Development Report on Philippines or the Wikipedia entry for Philippines.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 13, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 22, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
Environmental Regulatory Support
By Jaime Whitlock - PR & Communications Manager, December 16, 2008 05:52 PM
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