Physical Health Guatemala Project #12181

Safe, Energy Efficient Cookstoves in Guatemala

by Hunger Relief International

Safe, Energy Efficient Cookstoves in Guatemala

Project Report | Sep 20, 2021
30 new stoves distributed

By Jennifer Jones | Director of Donor Relations & Communications

Thank you for your partnership with Hunger Relief International (HRI)!

Our team has been very busy the past few months delivering and assembling 30 new safe cookstoves in partnership with Habitat and a local municipality.

These 30 new safe cookstoves will be in 3 different rural communities. Together we are drastically improving the air quality and health of more than 150 people!

Your ongoing support is saving and improving lives. You make it easier for children and adults to breath. You reduce the amount of wood being used to help deforestation. And you help prevent burns on young children who fall into open fires.

THANK YOU for every gift towards HRI's Safe Cookstoves project!

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May 27, 2021
2020 Annual Report

By Jennifer Jones | Director of Donor Relations & Communications

New Safe Cookstove

HRI is pleased to share our newly released 2020 Annual Report and Audited Financials!

Annual Report:
https://www.hungerreliefinternational.org/post/2020-annual-report

IRS Audited Financials:
https://www.hungerreliefinternational.org/about/finances

Here is a short story about one family who received a Safe Cookstove from HRI: Javier and Katherine have five children ranging from age 7 to 15 years old. They have a very complicated economic situation, even before the covid pandemic shut down the country of Guatemala. Katherine tries to sell Wood on the streets when possible and Javier works as a lumberjack, Farmer, guard and doing masonry work – truly he takes whatever work he can get. Even still, they depend mostly on handouts and donations just to get by. Their home is made of scraps pieced together from whatever they could find. Their stove is an open fire which is a great danger to the children especially. Katherine requires a special diet because she had open heart surgery less than a year ago. She has to take medication the rest of her life. Because of this, the main diet for the rest of the family consists of eating tortillas with butter and homegrown herbs just once or twice a day. Thanks to our generous partners, HRI was able to not only provide food supplies to this family, but we also installed a brand new safe cookstove to create a safer and healthier environment for the family.

Video of Garcia Family Receiving Stove:
https://www.hungerreliefinternational.org/post/garcia-family

Thank you for your partnership with HRI. Your donations are saving and improving the lives of some of the poorest and most vulnerable families in Guatemala.

New Safe Cookstove

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Feb 1, 2021
2020 Recap

By Jennifer Jones | Director of Donor Relations & Communications

I’d like to take a moment to thank you for supporting and partnering with Hunger Relief International (HRI) in 2020! We are immensely grateful for your donations to our organization through GlobalGiving. While it was an incredibly challenging year, it was also a record-breaking year for HRI!

Thanks to you and our wonderful partners in 2020, together we served more than 7,210 people through HRI’s ongoing programs and an additional 500,401 people through COVID-19 education, prevention, and relief programs! This includes distribution of 683,956 meals, 331 trainings, and 125 hand washing stations that enabled more than 372,000 people living in high-risk slum communities to wash their hands with soap and water regularly to prevent infection from COVID. We also provided 17 safe cook stoves to families in need – which will serve around 115 people to ensure they no longer breathe in thick soot from open fires, forever improving their health and safety. We reached our minimum fundraising goal for 2020 as well!

Last year was difficult to navigate, but our teams in Haiti and Guatemala were up to the challenge. When most other organizations ceased all work, HRI stepped up to do more to help prepare, protect, and provide for those hit hardest by the pandemic. Your hard-earned dollars saved lives! Your compassionate generosity created pathways for provision, independence, and hope. And your prayers launched our team to new heights.

HRI is ready to take on 2021 with confidence knowing the work we do each day impacts lives forever. People are counting on us. Parents are praying. Children are waiting. And together, we will respond with grace, compassion, dignity, and grateful hearts. We hope you will continue to lock arms with us as we work to relieve suffering, build resilience, protect children, prevent the abandonment and trafficking of children, empower families to provide for themselves, strengthen homes and health through education, and respond to the most critical needs of families.

Thank you and God bless your hands as they reach out to serve others.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Jones
405/408-6954 cell
jjones@hungerreliefintl.org

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