EarthCare Fund
Projects
SHIPPING SOLAR COOKERS TO HAITI
EarthCare Fund is purchasing and shipping solar cookers for use in Haiti, an extremely impoverished and deforested country where cooking fuel is scarce. Solar cookers require no fuel other than sunlight, produce no smoke, reduce air pollution and the incidence of lung and eye disease. So far 30 families in Port-au-Prince are benefiting from this no-cost cooking, and will for years to come.
Following the deadly earthquake of January 12, 2010, EarthCare Fund also contributed to Solar Cookers International’s project to provide CooKits to displaced families living in the community of Pigeon. As a part of the project, 135 people were taught proper use and care of solar cookers. During the training, solar meals were prepared by women of the village, led by a team of three Haitian solar experts.
Our next project in Haiti will be to supply CooKits to schools run by the Free Methodist Mission. Teachers at these schools are working to incorporate solar cookers into the curriculum. Students will learn how to cook food and pasteurize drinking water—potentially life-saving skills—using free, clean solar energy. With new solar cooking kits provided through your gifts, these students will be able to pass skills and fuel savings on to their parents, benefiting entire families.
The image on the right shows our donation page hosted with World-Wide Missions. If you would like to help us send solar cookers to Haiti, simply designate EarthCare Fund and note in the comment section “Solar cookers to Haiti.” Thanks!
COMPLETED PROJECTS
During 2010–2011, EarthCare Fund accomplished the following vital projects in these locations:
CONGO
EarthCare Fund made a grant to the Inshuem Protestant Orphanage near Idiofa, for well repair and water purification. The funds were designated to purchase a heavy duty diesel generator and water pump as well as to cover the costs of local labor to repair an existing well. This project is essential to the orphanage and mission compound and will also provide clean drinking water for surrounding villages, benefiting no less than 3,000 people every day.
HAITI
ECF shipped a sea container filled with clothing items to Missionaries of Charity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to benefit families impacted by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake of January 12, 2010. Included were 12 pallets of Crocs brand shoes/sandals and 2 pallets of new prescription sunglasses. The shipment had a total fair market value of $196,171.
ECF sent a grant to Convoy of Hope for its project to provide vegetable garden seed packets to families in rural areas of Haiti who can grow their own food.
ISRAEL
ECF provided a grant to Bridges of Peace, Jerusalem, for its work of planting trees and crops for food production, digging wells and desert reclamation, and other environment-related projects. It is estimated that at least 1,000 people will benefit from this gift.
LIBERIA
ECF made grants supporting the agricultural development projects of World-Wide Missions Liberia. Much of the nation’s land was burned over during 20 years of civil war, and since 98% of the population is dependent on subsistence farming, it is critical that production be quickly restored. James Zekieh, the mission’s director of agriculture, oversees the newly replanted rice paddies throughout Bassa County, as well as the pig farm in Bobo town and 20 acres of restored oil palm and coconut palm fields near Buchanan.
EarthCare Fund made grants for agricultural projects under the direction of Daniel Paygar. He and his extended family in rural Rivercess County have 200 acres of land under cultivation for food production (rice, cassava, various vegetables; raising chickens, ducks, and goats) and a rubber tree farm. The project employs farm workers supervised by an agricultural technician, and assistance is being provided by the Liberia Agriculture Company and Firestone Rubber Company. Altogether 40 people are already involved in this environmental job-creating program.
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Christians care too! Saving Earth and its natural resources—conserving, recycling, planting trees, digging wells, clean energy alternatives, improving the quality of life for all.
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