Safe, Energy Efficient Cookstoves in Guatemala

This past few months, our Social Worker conducted home-to-home assessments in the community of Plan de Avila, Guatemala to determine how many families are in need of a safe, energey efficient cookstove, latrine and/or clean water filter. 

The results of the extensive survey determined 21 more homes need a safe cookstove to prevent thick soot from filling the home when the mothers cook meals each day. Safe cookstoves will reduce respiratory infections, burns caused by children (mostly) falling into open flame fires in the home, and it will reduce the amount of wood required for cooking. 

In addition, the school needs kitchen improvements as well if they are going to provide a safe cooking environment at school as well. 

Plan de Avila is just one of many villages our team serves in Guatemala. Our goal is to see 100% of families using safe cookstoves in their homes. As a result, we know we will see improved health, which will have a direct impact on children attending school and parents able to go to work regularly.

Together with your support, HRI has secured a grant to ensure our goal of 100% safe cookstoves coverage in Plan de Avila will be implemented by March 2024! 

After those projects are implemented, with your continued support, we will continue to work on 100% safe cookstoves coverage in Las Brisas and El Retiro in Cuilapa (southern Guatemala) and begin implementing stove projects in Tierra Colorada Alta in Quetzaltenango (Northern Hightlands) soon as well.

Thank you for your support of HR's Safe, Energy Efficient Cookstoves Projects in Guatemala! 

Links:

• HRI Website
• HRI Facebook
• HRI Twitter

Thank you for partnering with Hunger Relief International (HRI) to provide Safe, Energy Efficient Cookstoves to three families living in remote villages in rural Guateamla in the month of July! 

WATCH THIS VIDEO UPDATE FROM GUATEMALA

Zaida and her family of 5 needed a safe cookstove so her toddler Antony would stop falling sick and having to go to the hospital every month. Thanks to our partners, they now have a stove with ventilation! Here's their story:

Zaida has three children. Juan Carlos and Deylin are beneficiaries of our School Feeding Program in the village Plan de Avila, in Cuilapa, Santa Rosa, Guatemala where they attend primary school. Young Antony is a toddler who stays at home with his mother and constantly falls ill. The father of the home is a farmer making barely enough to feed his family once a day.

Before we provided this new safe cookstove, Zaida cooked with an open fire which put the health of everyone in the house at risk, especially young Antony. He has been suffering so badly that they have had to take him to a hospital once a month for medication due to smoke inhalation.

Their new safe cookstove and ventilation system now removes all smoke from the home. It is also safer for young Antony than an open fire. And requires much less wood (which costs money and time for the family to buy / carry).

We are so grateful for every HRI partner. Together we are saving and improving lives!

Links:

• See Zaida's New Stove!