the village stove project
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TheVillage
StoveProject
Adapting Traditional Ideas to State-of-the-Art Designs for Remote Villages
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An aerial view of the area shows the path of the deadly landslide. Wakil Kohsar / AFP / Getty Images
The Village Project: Bringing Heat & Hope
to an Afghan Village
May 2nd 2014. Massive mudslides decimated the Afghan village of Ab Barik.This began the quest to bring better heating stoves to both our Pamiri villages in Tajikistan and northeastern Afghanistan.
Ab Barik, Afghanistanis about 60 miles across the Tajik border.
The tragedy provides a unique opportunity to aid a fragile Afghan region in a project benefitting impoverished villages in both Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It also allows us to build long-term relationships in both regions.
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Working with our established Tajik partners, we have jointly designed a project to develop village microbusinesses in both of the Pamirs and in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Pakistan
China
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyz Republic
Bardara
Ab
Barik
Around the
Neighborhood
Bardara Ab Barik
Typical Pamiri stove vented next to traditional open skylight, usually—not always--sealed closed in winter. Often a skylight, a window, and a single doorway with a curtain are the only openings to a one-room house.
The Pamiri Challenge: Adapting a Design to the Culture & Conditions
The stove is often the focal point for family gatherings and central to the raised seating/ eating/ sleeping area wrapping around it.
Typical Pamiri homes and types of terrains for remote villages. Forests have been decimated in recent decades. Even so, traditional wood-burning stoves still dominate the heating methods used in villages. Winters in these remote mountain villages are long and cold. Schools,often with an old-fashioned stove in classrooms, are still kept cold for lack of fuel.
Using rocket stove technology combined with heat-retaining Biomass (Adobe)Cob
The Project: to help establish a unique energy-efficient stove microbusinesses for remote, impoverished villages.
• This inexpensive, energy-efficient stove can maintain comfortable temperature 20-30 hours after fire in stove is out.
• The stove can be designed for cooking, baking, or drying as well. • With minimal raw material expense and extensive training to
develop a unique skill set among our village crafters, this revolutionary stove design will be profitable within the first year.
• Starting in the remote Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan, we will then take the best practices developed to Ab Barik, the Afghan village decimated by landslides in May 2014,
• Plans can be modified to meet each villager’s own unique needs.• If desired, we can help them establish a microbusiness,
contributing to the village’s recovering economy while establishing a unique Tajik-Afghan effort.
All funds raised will be invested in the project itself. Administrative costs are covered internally. Supplies will be purchased locally, thus benefitting both nations.
The Village Stove Project
Photos from plans available at ernieanderica.info
Your support will provide raw material and training to help our villagers build sustainable technology stoves for their communities and throughout the region.
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