Following the disastrous earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Lifeline financed a mission to that country and is in the process of establishing an initiative to provide fuel efficient stoves to impoverished and displaced Haitians.

Throughout Haiti, 95% of the population relies on wood and/or charcoal for cooking. This cooking method has ravaged the environment, which has lost literally 98% of its forest cover. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the cost of charcoal accounts for approximately 40% of the income of the typical Haitian family living in Port au Prince.

Lifeline’s initiative in Haiti seeks to address these urgent needs by providing fuel saving stoves, which will serve the cooking needs of tens of thousands of displaced Haitians. The initiative will include the piloting of various stove technologies and the provision of institutional stoves, which will reach thousands of schoolchildren.

Over the long-term, Lifeline hopes to make its initiative completely self-sustaining through the creation of a commercial market for fuel-saving stoves. In this way, Lifeline intends to build local capacity, at the same time that it helps Haiti combat the deforestation, poverty and diseases that are attributable to open fire cooking.

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