Together we can save lives and the environment!
According to the World Health Organization, nearly 3 billion people –or almost half the world’s population –cook their daily meals indoors over biomass-fueled cooking fires. Traditional cooking methods cannot achieve clean combustion so the majority of the heat is wasted and up to 20 percent of the biomass is converted into toxic substances like carbon monoxide, particulates, benzene and formaldehyde. The resulting Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) kills 1.6 million people every year http://www.envirofit.org/?q=our-products/clean-cookstoves/IAP

Due to their increased exposure in the home, over 85 percent of these deaths are women and children under the age of five. IAP-generated illness and deaths strain already poverty-stricken families on the edge, reducing income generation capacity and adding expenses for health care and medication.

To reduce deaths and illness due to IAP, the SJedi Sustainability Trust Micro-loan Project is signing members, who will contribute funds to assist families in Liberia to purchase COOK-STOVES and accessories. Please visit www.envirofit.org for details about the stove. Please email Peter Gbelia, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for questions about the Trust and the distribution program.

We want to implement by Oct 2010, so please join by emailing me your name and a estimated pledge amount that we will collect in October 2010.

Together we can save lives and the environment!

Thank You,

Peter Gbelia