Cook Stove Project

Helping The Community

For thousands of years the women of Chan Chen cooked on three-stone fires inside their one-room palapa homes leading to Excessive smoke inhalation being the leading cause of death in Mayan children under the age of five, according to the World Health Organization.
Children and adults being terribly burned due to falling into the fire.
Having over two times the safe level of carbon monoxide gas in their living environment.
Spending hours daily gathering wood to burn.
Black soot covering their living space.
High rates of Acute Respiratory Infections.

A gift of just $200 dollars and change a families life.