Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves

by Asociacion Tu'ik Ruch' Lew
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves
Protect Guatemalan Forests with Clean Cookstoves

Summary

Imagine! You can empower our community-based clean cookstove project in Guatemala's Lake Atitlan basin. With your help, we can provide 250 families with an energy-efficient, clean cookstove that will lower the rates of burns and respiratory diseases, improve family finances, and heavily reduce deforestation. You will be empowering a project notable for its focus on environmental education, its sensitivity to the local culture, and its long-term sustainability.

$40,000
total goal
$6,004
remaining
152
donors
4
monthly donors
6
fundraisers
4
years

Challenge

This community faces extreme economic challenges, environmental degradation, and severe health risks. Women in most of the Tz'utujil homes still cook over the traditional Mayan 3-stone fire. The search for firewood is driving severe deforestation, erosion, and landslides in the mountains surrounding Lake Atitlan, polluting the water on which everyone depends. Smoke from the fires is causing respiratory disease, and the cost of firewood continues to grow.

Solution

Energy-efficient cookstoves can reduce the need for firewood in households by over 70%. This means immediate reductions in tree loss, air pollution, and respiratory disease, especially for women, children, and the elderly. Families won't need to spend hours searching for firewood-or seeking firewood for purchase-leaving more time available for improved quality of life, like better nutrition, education for their children, even financial stability.

Long-Term Impact

This project has impressive short- and long-term benefits. Each cookstove saves one commercial firewood tree per month and reduces household air pollution by 99%. With a proven 10-year lifespan, these 250 cookstoves will prevent the logging of 30,000 trees, sequester 5,110 tons of CO2, and increase savings per family by US$3,000 (a substantial quantity given the 70% poverty rate). Our cookstoves are durable, movable, and aligned with the cultural traditions of our Mayan community.

Additional Documentation

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

Resources

Organization Information

Asociacion Tu'ik Ruch' Lew

Location: Santiago Atitlan, Solola - Guatemala
Website:
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Project Leader:
Jessica Kind
Santiago Atitlan , Guatemala
$33,996 raised of $40,000 goal
 
269 donations
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