Date established: 1998

Partner: Honduran Association for Development (AHDESA)

Number of stoves built: 14,350

Types of stoves built: Eco-stoves, Justa, Rocket

Program history: TWP has worked in more areas and helped more people protect their environment in Honduras than any other country where we work. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, though rich in natural beauty.  The affect of this dichotomy is that even though nearly half the country is forested, Honduras lost 10% of its forest between 1990 and 2000. Logging, clearing for agriculture, and cutting fuelwood are the major contributors to this rampant deforestation.  TWP’s fuel-efficient, healthy stove program coupled with our watershed protection and crop diversification projects are helping to ease the burden on Honduras’ precious natural resources.

After Hurricane Mitch ravaged Honduras in 1998, TWP and AHDESA teamed up with the Aprovecho Research Center and Rotary International to work with a women's group in the town of Suyapa and adapt fuel-efficient combustion principles to local, traditional cooking habits. The result was the Justa stove, named after community leader Doña Justa Nuñez. The Justa stove is made out of mud and brick and built directly in beneficiaries’ homes. Since 1999 we have built over 8,500 Justa stoves in Honduras.