Guatemala Stove Project

Documentary Video

The GSP documentary is available for viewing here.

Example Stove Certificate:

2009 Financial Statement

2010 Directors' Report

The Guatemala Stove Project (GSP) is a registered Canadian Charity (Registration # 871977617 RR0001) made up of a small group of North American volunteers that began working in response to a request for help from CEDEC, an indigenous non-profit group working in Guatemala's Altiplano (Western Highlands). CEDEC had identified the need for masonry cookstoves in the communities they serve, but residents lacked the human and material resources to build such stoves for themselves. The Guatemala Stove Project has been born out of this need.

Since those first six stoves in 1999, the GSP has expanded rapidly, building 25 stoves in 2000, 195 in 2001, 535 in 2002. In the spring of 2003 the thousandth stove was built and now we have built over 3800 stoves.

Just think, each morning three thousand families firing up their stoves, three thousand women not risking blindness while cooking for their families; 18 thousand men women and children not filling their lungs with toxic smoke every day. Perhaps over 200 thousand years of life expectancy (when you multiply 10 to 15 years per person)...

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PICTURES AND STORIES FROM THIS YEAR IN GUATEMALA read here

READ NANCY SIMPSON'S 2010 TRIP BLOG here

NEXT VOLUNTEER ADVENTURE February 2011

If you would like to volunteer to go to Guatemala come out to some meetings and get involved. We are looking for volunteers 18 and over who will continue their commitment to the project on their return to Canada. Read the current volunteer guidelines here

Apply Here for our next Stove Project trip.

Helping to Improve Life in Rural Guatemala

	Our 2010 Stove Building Workshop was held on January 15 at Algonquin College, Perth Campus. Masonry instructor John Scott gave the volunteers a hands-on overview of how to mix mortar, lay cement blocks and parge the finished stove walls. Find out more...
	GSP Funds 32 Cooking Stoves in Comitancillo In June 2009, the GSP sent funds to the AMMID organization for the construction of improved cooking stoves. Members of this organization (Asociación Maya-Mam de Investigación y Desarrollo) work cooperatively to learn new agricultural, health and income earning skills to improve their lives in one of the poorest regions of Guatemala. Read More...
	Escuela Los Niños de Sam On October 1, 2008 the son of GSP founder Tom Clarke and Rita Redner was killed in a tragic bicycle accident. The Sam Clarke Memorial Fund was created as a tribute to Sam’s short, bright life and is dedicated to providing concrete assistance to those in need, especially children. Read more...
	Case Study How the GSP went beyond stoves to help Maria Colop. - Click here
	Wyn Kalagian, a retired public health nurse and painter has donated an astounding 80 stoves since 2008 through the proceeds from sales of her paintings, and presentations. Check out her website, the Guatemalan Women's Series to view the paintings she sold.


	Basic Stove Building Vocabulary Use this online resource for the English to Spanish translations for basic stove building. Learn more...