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Global Health
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Honduras
In Honduras, 80% of rural families cook over open fires in the home. Due to poor ventilation, indoor air pollution accumulates and can lead to pneumonia, acute lower respiratory infection, and cancer. Yearly, it accounts for 1.6 million deaths worldwide. Open fires are also inefficient, wasting up to 80% of the potential energy of wood. Over the past 30 years 2/3 of the forests have been felled in Honduras.
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In July of 2007, Beyond Traditional Borders worked with Baylor Shoulder to Shoulder, an organization that provides medical care and health education in remote communities in Honduras, to establish Project CASA (Clean Air for Santa Anna). The goal of this project was to build ventilated wood-burning stoves to reduce indoor air pollution and increase efficiency. Initially, BTB built two stoves that were well-received. The Baylor Shoulder to Shoulder team has continued to build stoves in subsequent medical brigades. Furthermore, a local Peace Corps volunteer, Mike Landis, continued the project in Camesca, Honduras, and was able to build 75 more ventilated stoves.
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BTB Partners in Honduras
Baylor Shoulder to Shoulder
Shoulder to Shoulder is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based out of Cincinnati, Ohio that addresses health care, educational, and economic issues in underserved communities in Honduras.
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