YOUR GIFT

OF A STOVE CAN

MOVE A NEEDY

FAMILY FROM THE

BOTTOM TO THE

TOP OF THE

ENERGY LADDER

IN ONE STEP.

THE BENEFITS OF

THIS STOVE TO THE

FAMILY CANNOT BE

OVERESTIMATED.

The biggest challenges for the camps are child labor, the rape of girls, and physical abuse of women and children while they are collecting firewood. —Abdusemed Mohammed, UNCR Assistant Program Officer

You can change a family’s life.

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The goal of Project Gaia’s “Donate a Stove” program is to provide ethanol-powered stoves to families in need of safe, clean energy alternatives. For just $100 you can give a gift that is guaranteed to improve the quality of life for a family in need. We are currently placing stoves with families in the Kebribeyah and Teferi Ber Refugee Camps in southeastern Ethiopia, the Shimelba Camp in northern Ethiopia, the Good Shepherd Sisters Community in Addis Ababa, and the Millennium Village in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region. The entire amount of your gift goes toward the purchase of a CleanCook stove for one of these families, including transport and delivery costs, plus a few weeks’ fuel to get people started.

Here’s how your gift works.
When you purchase a CleanCook stove, Project Gaia will send an acknowledgment with details about your gift. Simply email Project Gaia and include your name, contact information, and PayPal receipt number. If you wish to purchase the stove in someone else’s name, let us know and we'll be happy to send the acknowledgment directly to that person

Project Gaia will deliver the CleanCook stove to a family in one of the above-listed communities, tracking it to its destination, and, if you request this in your email, sending you or your named donor information about the family who received the stove. Trained Project Gaia staff are on site in each community to make sure that the family derives maximum benefit from your gift.

Reduce your carbon footprint.
Families in the refugee camps depend entirely on harvesting nonrenewable fuelwood; families in the village and urban communities generally rely on a mix of wood, charcoal, and kerosene. The alcohol-fueled CleanCook stove requires no wood, charcoal, or kerosene, saving between 2.5 to 17 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) and other gases per year, depending upon whether the stove displaces nonrenewable biomass or a mix of fuels.

By comparison, a typical family car in Europe or the United States, driven an average number of miles, produces about three tons of CO₂e per year; a large SUV may produce 10 tons. The U. S. national average personal carbon footprint is 7.5 tons of CO₂e per year. Your purchase of a single stove can reduce—or eliminate—your carbon footprint!

Your gift is much more than a stove.
The impact of giving a CleanCook stove to a vulnerable family cannot be overestimated.
• In smoke-filled kitchens, women and children can breathe a smoke equivalent of three packs of cigarettes a day. The CleanCook stove not only cleans indoor air, it virtually eliminates the risk of burns and fires.
• Household health improves immediately with the removal of cooking smoke and poisonous carbon monoxide gas from the home.
• Women and girls no longer have to walk for hours over long distances, risking assault, rape—even death—to gather fuelwood.
• With the time saved from gathering, women are able to go to school, visit the health clinic, start small businesses, and care for their children.
• With less cutting of trees and reduced demand for charcoal, the pressure on the local environment is greatly reduced.
• Because families take good care of them, each CleanCook stove placed in service can be expected to benefit the family for at least five years.
• When you provide a CleanCook stove, you help to stimulate reliable and sustainable ethanol supply to the community by increasing stove numbers and encouraging community-wide transition from dirty, dangerous, and inefficient fuels to clean, safe, renewable alcohol fuels. Read about household energy and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

This is the time . . .
Problems associated with the acute lack of energy choices in the developing world— particularly household energy—are increasing. The number of people forced to rely on dirty and dangerous fuels for cooking is growing. We can reverse this trend.

This is the stove . . .
Why should people in the developing world have only bad choices with better alternatives are available? The CleanCook stove moves families from the bottom of the energy ladder to the top in a single step.

This is how you can make a difference . . .
We appreciate that many people will wish to donate more or less than the $100 needed to support one family. Please donate whatever you can. We will make sure that the entire amount is used to provide stoves to those living in poverty.

Give a life-saving stove.
You can donate a CleanCook stove for a needy family in one of two ways:
• Click the button below to go to our secure PayPal site and pay by credit card.
• Download this printable form and send it with your personal check.

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Thank you for your generosity.

Now I can go to the adult classes in the school because I have more time since I don't have to collect wood. And the stove cooks faster. —Shimelba camp resident

I like the CleanCook very much. Before we had this stove, my two daughters collected wood three days each week. They would make two trips each time, from morning until 7 p.m. at night. —Kebribeyah camp resident

Now I gather fuelwood one time a week and this gives me more time to work in my garden raising cabbage, sweet potato, and other vegetables to sell at the market. —Bonga camp resident

There is no danger of my house catching fire with the CleanCook stove. —Shimelba camp resident

The CleanCook stove is more efficient than other stoves. Before, I spent all day cooking and now I cook about two hours a day. With my free time I weave mats to sell, attend the literacy program, and care for my three children. —Shimelba camp resident

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