Project Benefits
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Improved Social,
Environmental, and Economic Benefits
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Improved health through clean, safe drinking water for
families and less smoke in kitchens
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Improved livelihoods through less time spent collecting
water and wood-fuels and reduced expenditure on water,
wood-fuels and clinical bills
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Reduced deforestation through less use of wood and charcoal
for water treatment and cooking
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Increased employment and skills/capacity building through
construction, marketing, distribution and maintenance of
water treatment and improved stove technologies, also
through extended public health education and monitoring
tasks
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Reduced DALYs (disability-adjusted life-years) providing
manpower sustainability
Additional Benefits
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Reducing waterborne disease in rural and urban populations
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Reducing deforestation, where biomass is a major source of
fuel yet not re-growing
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Reducing indoor air pollution
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Building sustainable businesses
Improved Social, Environmental, and
Economic Benefits
Social:
Improved health through:
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clean, safe drinking water for families combined with
hygiene education
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reduction of smoke in kitchens
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expanded and improved public health outreach
Improvement in educational levels through
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Lower incidence of water borne disease affecting attainment
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Less time spent collecting firewood, due to use of
fuel-efficient stoves
Environmental:
Reduced deforestation through less use of wood and charcoal:
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for water treatment
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for cooking
Economic:
Improved livelihoods through:
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less time spent collecting water and wood-fuels
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reduced expenditure on water and wood-fuels
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reduced family clinical bills and national health
expenditure
Increased employment and skills/capacity building through:
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Construction, marketing, distribution of water treatment and
improved stove technologies
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Maintenance of water filters, hand-pumps, cook-stoves
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Public education training
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Monitoring tasks
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Management of businesses with social-missions |
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Achieving The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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The use of our improved cook stoves can achieve a wide range of lasting
improvements for the environment, the economy and the population at local level
(families and micro-enterprises), national level (reduction in amount of foreign
exchange used for energy imports) and global level (use of renewable energy
instead of fossil fuels, fewer emissions, better greenhouse gas capture).
The use of our improved stoves contributes to attaining the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) in various ways.
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MDG 1: Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
a)
The distribution and manufacture and sale of
fuel-efficient stoves provide opportunities for generating
income.
b)
Financial savings of up to 50 percent can be achieved
for household energy use. More money and time are available
for growing and procuring food.
c)
Efficient stoves and ovens make production involving
further processing more attractive.
MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education
a)
As up to 50 percent less time is required for
gathering wood, more children have increased opportunity to
attend school.
MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
b)
As up to 50 percent less time is required for
gathering wood, and as the stoves require less time to cook
food, women have more time for income-generating activities.
c)
Women will predominantly be used to distribute our
stoves and thus participate more strongly in economic
processes.
MDG
4/5/6: Health improvements
a)
Better combustion almost entirely obviates the
formation of poisonous fumes. As a result of better indoor
air quality and reduced pollution, there is less respiratory
illness among mothers and small children.
b)
Risk of injury to children is significantly reduced.
MDG
7: Ensure environmental sustainability
a)
Natural resources, particularly woodland, are
conserved as the need for wood is reduced by up to 60
percent.
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