(Photo Courtesy of Nancy Hughes) Factory owner Gustavo Peña demonstrates use of the Ecocina stove to a group of women in El Salvador.
Supplying Central America with Safe Stoves
MARCH 08, 2010Peter Schmidtke , Rotary International
In 2004, Rotarian Nancy Hughes wrote the first of five matching grants that provided more than 2,300 safe stoves in Guatemala.
She discovered a less expensive, lighter prototype, however, in a 50-pound portable stove called the Ecocina.
Read the story about her efforts to establish Ecocina factories and to educate communities about the stoves: www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/Stove Team International: www.stoveteam.org/ Bringing fuel efficient stoves to the world
