Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
and
"Money is not
the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The
Natural Economic Order
Revised English edition,
Peter Owen,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
Cooking is the most
energy intensive activity in the project area.
Cooking is currently done over
an open fire, leading to intense air pollution both inside the houses and in
the community.
Fuels used for cooking are
wood and petroleum products such as kerosene and gas. Of these wood fuel is the
predominant fuel in both rural and urban areas, and it is very expensive. The
cost of a bundle of wood for fuel is € 1,35. Kerosene costs €0.35 per litre and
a bag of charcoal € 3,50.
Each family typically uses
10kg of wood per day or about 3.65 tons per year. The typical cost of this fuel
is up € 40 per family per month. The total consumption in the project area is
30,000 tons of wood per annum in the project area with 8000 thousand families
at a global cost of some € 3.840.000. Savings of just 20% of this amount over a
period of ten years are alone sufficient to “pay” for the entire project costs.
All staple foods are cooked
usually by women. Each meal takes between 30 minutes and 1 hour to prepare,
depending on the available fuel and the type of foodstuffs. Large parts of
meagre family incomes are therefore spent on fuel for cooking. The
unsustainable use of wood leads to de-forestation and erosion, air pollution
and health hazards. Moreover, the traditional cooking methods used are
inefficient. The project therefore introduces highly efficient stoves. They
will be locally manufactured within local currency LETS systems.
Bio-mass needed to fuel the
stoves will also be locally produced and treated, without limiting the use of
the natural fertilisers in local agricultural production.
Locally manufactured solar
cookers will also be introduced where daytime cooking does not contrast with
local customs. An important part of all loan repayments and expenditure under
this project will be funded by introducing energy efficient stoves and growing
bio-mass for fuel.
The project will bring major
savings in the costs of cooking. These savings alone will cover most if not all
of the monthly contributions made by the families to the project.
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