STEER FOUNDATION

Mission

Mission
1. Poverty Eradication
2. Democratization
3. Human Rights
4. Gender Equity
5. Globalisation
6. Environmental Sustainability
7. Educational Development

Organization Type Non-Governmental Organization

Contact Information

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Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work:

The Goal of STEER is to mobilize the youth as vibrant human resource for the development of society and child development, working with and contributing to high priority education, health, environment and on a broader sense for poverty alleviation approaches including women.

Fuels/Technologies: Biomass
Solar
Sectors of Experience: Agriculture
Education
Environment
Gender
Health
Rural Development
Water

Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas

Social/Cultural barriers to using traditional fuels and stoves:

Steer propagate awareness for the protection and conservation of the environment by educating women and men of underprivileged society for adoption of modern technical and cooking facilities so that the environment is cap clean and the health of cooking women is maintain. We conduct educational courses, workshops and seminars to emphasis the masses to use better technologically developed cooking facilities and adopting gas fuel while cooking.


Market development for improved cooking technologies:

Steer has conducted a thorough research of market for the better quality of cooking apparatuses and advises the masses to adopt these in their daily use.


Technology standardization for cooking, heating and ventilation:

Steer research team has propose certain simple and adoptable as well as sustainable and cheaper process for users to cook. Better ventilation faculties were chalked out to enable the weaker section to adopt the practice for the sustainable use.


Indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring:

Our volunteers visit the families who have opted our technology, to see there reaction and advise them in case they feel some problem. Every quarter our research team also review the adaptability and miscellaneously problems faced.

Relevant Publications or Studies

None noted

Our Contribution to the Partnership

We want finanical support so that more and more families are convenesed to adopt the modern cooking apperatures and better bio-gas use since most of them have no means to invest in purchasing the new system.