ProWorld's volunteers are making it a better world. Making their way to Urubamba in Peru, they are living with the village folk, learning their language, sharing their food and helping them build clean cookstoves.
Since 2000, the clean cookstoves building program of ProWorld has installed 5,400 stoves in Peru, helping over 16,000 people breathe fresher air while cooking and eating. Volunteers learn the construction of cookstoves, develop training material, conduct health surveys among the local families and also check the existing stove base. The Pro-World stoves burn less wood, reduce the risk of respiratory diseases and reduce carbon emissions and deforestation.
The money which comes from the volunteers goes back into the project. Apart from empowering communities, the tour is also designed to give the volunteers an opportunity to explore Urubamba which is situated near the Chicon glacier on the Andes Mountains.
ProWorld has other projects in Mexico, Belize, India, Thailand, Ghana and Brazil focusing on health, environment and social/economic development.
A report by the Ministry of Health in Peru states that 12 per cent of all reported deaths in the country in 2000 were from Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI). Peru’s Country Environmental Analysis has found that Indoor Air Pollution contributes to 25-40 per cent of the deaths among children, 15-25 per cent among adult females and 20-40 per cent of all cases of death and illness due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease.
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