High-Efficiency Stoves for Darfur Refugees $20.00
The Berkeley Darfur Stove is only five small pieces of bent metal, but its impact is too great to measure.
Since 2003, hundreds of thousands of African Sudanese have been killed in Darfur and another 2.2 million people — mostly women and children — are crowded into camps surrounded by a barren landscape.
Venturing outside these boundaries in search of fuel to cook their meals often ends in violence. But what if these women didn't have to leave the safety of the camp as often? What if they had a stove that required up to 75% less firewood? They do: It is the Berkeley Darfur Stove, and it is changing lives.
The Berkeley Darfur ultra high-efficiency cook stove:
- Can be built in Sudan by locals, enabling them to earn extra income and become part of the solution
- Is suited to local high-temperature and high-wind outdoor cooking methods
- Emits less smoke than other stoves, minimizing smoke inhalation
- Uses up to 75% less fuel, enabling women to minimize the dangerous 7-hour treks outside the camps to gather wood
- Helps the denuded environment recover from severe overharvesting
$20.00 will subsidize a Berkeley Darfur Stove for a family living in the Darfur refugee camps.
The Berkeley Darfur Stove currently costs $30 to produce. To ensure that stove recipients will use and value their stove, and not merely re-sell the metal for scrap, refugee families are asked to contribute $10 themselves. Most families are able and very willing to contribute $10, and have a sense of pride in their purchase and their ability to make it without accepting the stove as a handout. But for families that cannot afford even $10, Darfur Stoves has a fund to underwrite that portion of the $30 stove. That fund is completely separate from this Gift That Gives More. Your $20 purchase generously provides the $20 donor portion of one Berkeley Darfur Stove.
Upon purchase, you will receive an automated e-mail with a link to a full-color certificate of acknowledgment that you may print and frame for display or gift-giving. Adobe Acrobat Reader, or equivalent .pdf viewing program, is required to open the file. The certificate makes a great "instant" gift for an honored colleague, family member or friend.
Please note: Your purchase is tax-deductible in the U.S.A., and you will receive a receipt from GreaterGood.org for your taxes. 100% of your gift goes to Darfur Stoves as a grant through GreaterGood.org. GreaterGood Network stores do not receive any profit from the sale of this Gift That Gives More™; we bring it to you in the spirit of the greater good. GreaterGood.org has ultimate authority and discretion with regard to the distribution of its funds. All expenditures made are consistent with the exempt purposes of GreaterGood.org.
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