The Guatemala Stove Project (GSP) is a registered Canadian charity (#871977617 RR0001) that raises funds and provides volunteers for the building of
masonry cookstoves in
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
's Altiplano (Western Highlands).
The Guatemala Stove Project works in partnership with
CEDEC (Centro De Estudios Para El Desarrollo Y La Cooperacion), a non profit indigenous group from Quetzaltenango (Xela) Guatemala. CEDEC and the Guatemala Stove Project work with local women's groups to identify the families who are in need of a stove.
Since 1999 the Guatemala Stove Project has built over 7000 stoves.
[http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/guatemalastoves , Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves, Guatemala Stove Project, Tom Clarke, Accessed January 11, 2011.]
See also
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Indoor air pollution in developing nations
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Appropriate technology
Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technology, technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by its users, labor-intensive, efficient energy use, energy-efficient, environmentally sust ...
References
Development charities based in Canada
Foreign charities operating in Guatemala
External links
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