Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S.A.

CEDESOL is one of five organizations around the world selected by the Environmental Protection Agency of the U.S.A. in a partnership for Clean Indoor Air.  We are making use of the grant to scale up production of our rocket stoves. Major improvements will be made in the construction process so that 2,000 of these stoves will be produced every month, a substantial increase on our current capacity of only 300 or 400. In addition, we are working with consultants to improve the stoves design. Our goal is deliver 20,000 stoves by mid-2009.

GiveMeaning

CEDESOL is currently running a project in partnership with GiveMeaning, an organization with a website that allows anybody to invest in projects that have achievable goals to accomplish measurable life-change. For just $12 invested you can enable a poor Bolivian to acquire an ecological stove that can improve their life in so many ways and also reduce damage to the environment. For more information and the opportunity to invest in this project please visit http://www.givemeaning.com/project/stovelifechange.

There is a deadline to achieve our stated fundraising goal for this project; now would be a great time to give!

Prison workshops

CEDESOL believes in empowering the local population through job creation and skills education. As the Bolivian government does not have rehabilitation programs for its prisoners, CEDESOL decided to provide income for over 30 inmates´ families at Cochabamba´s El Abra prison. At our rehabilitation workshops inmates are trained and then paid to build our ecological cookers, providing them not only with a means of survival for their family but skills and work ethic that restores dignity and prepares them for life on the outside.