Earthshield International Foundation

Plans are underway to create a center that will serve as a platform for learning-by-doing for people on energy management, waste neutral life style, growing trees and gardening. The target population is urban/rural and is mostly middle/low income in the rural areas and middle/high income in the urban areas, including work with youth/students. The scale of the initiative will be initially community level, then state and later national.

Due to the target population's low earning capacity, most of them see wood fuel as the cheaper option and are mostly ignorant about the dangers of indoor air pollution and the emissions of carbon that come with their cooking. It has been a way of life since their forefathers time and will be a bit difficult to make them change except when they see proof of savings in monetary terms and later proof of health improvement after being shown about the health implications of inhaling polluted air. We will be meeting social/behavioral needs, developing local markets, helping to propagate improved technology design & performance, and monitoring impacts of our interventions.

We will be meeting the target population through their social platforms, leaders forum, religious and other identified influential platforms to educate, showcase products and promote energy saving stoves in an affordable way.

We are interested in a process that will reduce the amount of energy required for cooking and ventilating so as to reduce the overall carbon emissions. We also work to reduce deliberate energy wastage due to ignorance about the consequences.

We will monitor through data collection of all the contacted target audience, during training registration, during sales and demonstrations and after sale follow up interventions.

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We will participate through training and administration.