Partner: Ut’z Che'

Trees Planted (2000-2011): 443,841

Clean Cookstoves Built (1998-2011): 2,604

Our tree nursery in Tiquisate, on the south coast, has provided fourteen communities with tree seedlings to plant as a barrier to soil erosion, for use as a sustainable firewood supply, and as a source of extra income. The Tiquisate nursery concentrates on fruit tree production, and has conducted workshops to train local farmers how to graft, plant, and care for the trees (including the increasingly important May Nut tree). To double our reforestation efforts, farmers who receive fruit tree seedlings plant native forest trees on their land.

In 1998, we began building Justa clean cookstoves in Guatemala to improve the economic situation of disadvantaged rural and urban families. Through our program along the south coast, Guatemalan families help build their own clean cookstoves, reducing cooking costs and dramatically improving the respiratory health of their mothers and daughters.