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This project is enhancing the health and safety of
entire families at a cost of $64.10 per family. Please read the
following pages to see how this is being accomplished followed by a quote
from one of the mothers expressing the benefits her family has received.
A BUDGET
NOTE FROM AXEL (Director of the Asociación Vida):
First of all, I want to let
you know just how much of a blessing it has been to each one of the 80
families that we were able to provide with improved stoves this past
year. We hope to continue with the same stove project this coming year.
The data that we have and that will be
useful to the Rotary Club in Anchorage is that there exists a request from
the community health committees for a total of 420 families that do not
have an adequate stove and that are in need of one. These are all
families that have children under the age of 5 years. This year we were
able to help 80 families with the construction of improved stoves, so from
this we are left with 340 families still in need of improved stoves. The
total budget for these 340 stoves is $21,794 ($64.10 per stove). Our
desire is that little by little, year by year, we will work towards
completing this project. God willing, we will continue to use the funding
that becomes available to us from the Rotary Club.
View over the community of La Pila of the
municipality of Patzún in Guatemala.
 
The beauty contrasts with the quality of life in this
community. This is an example.
 
The process of construction of the improved stoves.
The part of the material used that can not be found locally is donated by
the Asociación Vida and the process is directed by the local leaders
accompanied by the Asociación Vida. This means that the community
participates responsibly in each of the periods of construction.
The development of the work under the supervision of
the mother of the house.
Upon asking the mother of the family in the above
picture how she feels with her new stove, she said the following:
I feel very happy for the help. We as women suffer
very much in that we need to make our own fire, and in doing that we burn
ourselves often, our children also burn themselves, and the smoke makes us
sick in the lungs, especially in the youngest children. Also, my knees
hurt quite a bit due to squatting down around the fire for so much time.
NOW I WORK IN A CLEAN PLACE, AND NOW MY CHILDREN DO NOT BURN THEMSELVES.
WE HAVE TO BECOME ACCUSTOMED but we are very thankful for the help that
the Asociación Vida has given us, because now for the past seven years,
since my husband and I were married, we have dreamed of having our own
stove, but only now was it possible to do it. We are going to take care
of it and we are very thankful to the people from far away that have made
this possible through their donations.
 
 
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