Here is another story of charity. there are many who volunteer every year to be part of a trip to honduras to help I like these stories of people that help others that may not be so lucky. I am glad god gave them a heart of giving becuase its sometimes hard to come by in people these days..
Three members of the Rotary Club of Madison returned to Honduras with their ongoing service project to build safer, cleaner stoves for villagers to cook food.
Project lead Stephen Baum, Sandy Patel and Dennis Sanders worked with members of the Choluteca Rotary Club in the villages of San Juan Arriba, San Juan Cito and El Jocote de Linaca. They were assisted by an in-country coordinator and interpreter, Carolina Tercero.
The team built “eco-stoves,” which still use wood as a fuel source but burn with a hotter flame. In addition, smoke is expelled outside the dwelling through an exhaust pipe. Each stove costs about $75.
The second greatest contributor to infant deaths and adult illnesses in Honduras is respiratory infections and breathing disorders caused by the ever-present smoke from cooking fires that hovers in every home,” Baum said.
“A major benefit is an increased surface area that allows multiple items to be cooked at one time,” Baum said. “The team managed the delivery of the heat-resistant stove materials, coordinated the “Train the Trainer” project aspects and began stove installation,” club president Alex Luttrell said.
Madison Rotarians, with assistance from a Rotary District 6860 grant, purchased materials and provided labor for 100 eco-stoves this year, Luttrell said.
For their work in Honduras, the Madison Rotarians received the first-place international service award for District 6860.
The Rotarians’ 2009 work focused on creating engineering drawings and parts lists for the stove design, documenting step-by-step construction and publicizing the benefit of the design to other Rotary clubs and service organizations.
Their procedures offers explicit details, such as setting up adobe blocks, building the chimney base and installing the stove back with mud, brick and two 22-inch pieces of reinforcement rods.
In their pilot project in 2008, the Madison Rotary Club built 36 eco-stoves in Jayacayan, Honduras and 10 each in the villages of San Juan Arriba and San Juan Cito. This year, the Madison crew returned to homes with stove installations from 2008 to inspect the stoves and visit with families.
The Madison club continues to support a joint project in Honduras for electrical needs with their partner Rotarians in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Baum said.
Team members also distributed vitamins, dental supplies and health care products to residents of the villages receiving thee co-stoves.
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Good story. Glad to see there are still some very good people in the world.
I do not understand, why volunteers are needed for this project? Why people from Honduras do not want to do it by them self? If they will work 8-12 hours day they can perfectly rebuild their villages in a matter of 1-2 months…