For many Guatemalan families, resources are scarce and housing is inadequate. Many families cook over wood fires in the home with no ventilation. Lung infections, serious illness, and even death results from living in an atmosphere of suffocating smoke. To diminish this health hazard, Mission Guatemala’s volunteers help build efficient wood burning stoves with ventilation pipes to prevent smoke from filling the home. These highly energy efficient wood burning stoves use 40 percent less wood than conventional stoves and get extremely hot very quickly.
The Mission Guatemala stove project has many benefits:
- The stoves use less wood
- Less wood means cost savings
- Less deforestation which is a growing problem in Guatemala
- Smoke is vented away from the house which helps with breathing problems
- Because there is no open fire, there are less children and adults burned from falling into an open fire
Families are pre-screened by the Mission Guatemala community worker to make sure there truly is a need for a stove.
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