FOUNDATIONS FOR GROWTH: INSTALLING IMPROVED STOVES AND LATRINES IN SAN RAFAEL LAS FLORES

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN GUATEMALA

  • Project Budget: € 20,000

  • Beneficiaries: 1,500 direct beneficiaries

  • Partners: 3

PURPOSE

  • Provide housing solutions and educational trainings in partnership with the local Community Development Council
  • Providing partner families with smokeless stoves, improved latrines and educational training
  • Help partner families construct latrines to improve sanitation conditions and reduce illness in partnership with HFHG
  • Provide HFHG with a successful prototype for similar community development projects to be implemented in 2014 and 2015 in coffee growing communities in the departments of San Marcos, Huehuetenango and Sololá.

This project was possible thanks to the support of Habitat for Humanity Guatemala (HFHG), Local Community Development Council (COCODE), Mocca d’Or and EFICO Central America/the EFICO Foundation and ran from April 2013 to September 2014.

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