Guatemala Stove Project

Documentary Video

The GSP documentary is available for viewing here.

Example Stove Certificate:

Annual Report and Financial Statement:

2009 Financial Statement

2009 Annual 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)...

> Learn More

2009 TRIP PHOTOS for Pierre Fortier's photojournalism website click here

2009 TRIP BLOG read Erika Seidenbusch's travel blog here

2008 OVERVIEW Click here for an overview of the 2008 volunteer trip

Minutes and Agenta to GSP Meetings - here

PICTURES AND STORIES FROM THIS YEAR IN GUATEMALA

The 2010 trip diary is 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.

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 number of stoves (over forty!) through the proceeds from sales of her paintings since 2008 to the GSP. She has created a website of her work, check out the Guatemalan Women's Series page to view the paintings she sold.
	On Friday August 24 2007 the GSP became the happy owners of a beautiful 1996 66 passenger, 7 speed, school bus ...On Wednesday January 23rd at 5 AM the bus left Perth and cleared US customs by 9 AM! The bus cruised across North America hoping to reach Guatemala around the 30th of January! Gracias Paul Hauraney, Luis Marchena, and Regan Lee for driving the bus. More...
	The Guatemala Stove Project Adventure Each year a team of volunteers make the trip to Guatemala where they make the daily trek into the rural villages of Guatemala and build cook stoves which makes an incredible impact on the lives. Learn more....
	Basic Stove Building Vocabulary Use this online resource for the English to Spanish translations for basic stove building. Learn more...