HEALTHY HOME KITS FOR THE BUENA VISTA LAS FLORES COFFEE COMMUNITY

IMPROVING OVERALL LIVING CONDITIONS & HEALTH

  • Project Budget: € 15,000

  • Beneficiaries: 47 beneficiary families

  • Partners: 3

PURPOSE

  • Improve the health and living conditions of the families in the community of Buena Vista Las Flores
  • Install 47 smokeless stoves which will help reduce respiratory and pulmonary diseases and eye problems as well as deforestation
  • Install 47 water filters which will help reduce gastro-intestinal diseases and gives the families of Buena Vista Las Flores access to clean drinking water
  • Install 47 latrines which will help reduce gastro-intestinal diseases, diarrhea, parasitic worms and trachoma
  • Provide training in financial planning, disaster response, preventive health, nutritional cooking, project management, and stove/latrine construction

This project was possible thanks to the support of Habitat for Humanity Guatemala, Local Community Development Council or COCODE, Hesselink Koffie and EFICO Central America/the EFICO Foundation and ran from November 2018 to November 2019.

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