EarthCare Fund
Project Accomplishments
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 2008–2009, EarthCare Fund accomplished the following vital projects in these locations:
HAITI
EarthCare Fund purchased and shipped solar ovens for 15 families 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.
ECF made a grant to Convoy of Hope for its project in Haiti to provide vegetable garden seed packets to families in rural areas 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.
KENYA
ECF made a grant of to Convoy of Hope for its projects to provide new wells with pure drinking water and water purification units to be used in the Mathare Valley, a desperately needy slum area of Nairobi.
ECF supplied 30 solar ovens to poor families in Nairobi, making their food preparation and cooking virtually cost-free and pollution-free.
LIBERIA
EarthCare Fund made a grant to support 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 is the mission’s director of agriculture, overseeing 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. These projects will benefit at least 1,000 church members.
ECF made two grants to World-Wide Missions Liberia for new agricultural projects under the direction of Daniel Paygar. He and his extended family in rural Rivercess County have 500 acres of land being surveyed for a rubber tree farm. One hundred acres already have been cultivated, with some of the seedlings having two years’ growth. The project employs 25 farm workers supervised by an agricultural technician, and assistance is being provided by the Liberia Agriculture Company and Firestone Rubber Company.
MEXICO
ECF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with clothing and supplies to Centro Cristiano Poder de Dios in Mexico City to benefit suffering children and families. Included were 18,750 lbs of baled clothing, 600 lbs of shoes, and 800 lbs of quilts. They were distributed by local church volunteers. The shipment had a total fair market value of $125,394.
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