PROVIDING HEALTHY HOME KITS TO RURAL FAMILIES

HOUSING SOLUTIONS, EDUCATIONAL TRAININGS AND IMPROVED HEALTH IN GUATEMALA

  • Project Budget: € 15,000

  • Beneficiaries: 40 beneficiary families in El Conacaste

  • Partners: 3

PURPOSE

  • Improve the health and living conditions of the families in the community of El Conacaste
  • Install 40 smokeless stoves which will help reduce respiratory and pulmonary diseases and eye problems as well as deforestation
  • Install 40 water filters which will help reduce gastro-intestinal diseases and gives access to clean drinking water
  • Install 40 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, COCODE, Hesselink Koffie and EFICO Central America/the EFICO Foundation and ran from March 2017 to October 2018.

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