Prakti is celebrating its fourth year of existence. To date, our clean and efficient cooking stoves are impacting the life of 175,000 people in Haiti, India, and Nepal. In a few months, our stoves will be making meals for 84,000 more people in Darfur/Sudan. As we are reaching a higher level of distribution, self-funding is not enough anymore!
Some recent Prakti highlights:
• We developed clean and efficient institutional cooking stoves, which run on 'green' fuel: Briquettes made from urban waste as alternative to charcoal. We already delivered 700 of these large stoves - which will be feeding 140,000 school children, saving 10,000 tons of wood per year, and saving schools a total of $400,000 per year in charcoal cost. This is the best institutional stove on the market.
• We developed the best charcoal stove in Haiti. 2200 of these stoves have been used in Port Au Prince - saving a total of 2,400 tons of wood per year, and a total of $90,000 per year to stove owners. This Haiti success also led us to win the title 'best charcoal stove' in six focus groups recently completed in Kenya.
Prakti is a finalist for a fellowship to attend the 2012 “Unreasonable Institute” – an amazing opportunity to build relationships with potential investors, foundations and other social entrepreneurs. To receive a fellowship, we need to be one of the first 25 finalists to raise $10,000 by March 6th. With your donation and support, Prakti can continue to produce the world’s leading fuel-efficient biomass cookstoves, tangibly improving the health, livelihood and environment of the poorest one half of the world’s population.
Please help us by making a contribution at the Unreasonable Marketplace: https://marketplace.unreasonableinstitute.org/project/prakti-design-lab/
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Learn more about Prakti:
Website - http://www.praktidesign.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PraktiDesign
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv-nuwbyUBU