By Kate Gibson | Trusts and Foundations Manager
Dear Supporters,
We are seeking support for a clean energy intervention that will provide renewable energy for remote health posts and roll out improved cookstoves for some of the poorest and most remote communities in Nepal, addressing the dual problems of significant respiratory disease and mortality among women and children caused by the use of dirty fuels and lack of energy-enabled health care for their treatment.
Our pilot project, Clean Energy for Improved Health (CEIH), Nepal will directly improve the health of 4,728 people in four extremely poor, off-grid communities in Surkhet District, at a cost of £55,097 or £58 pence per person reached over the twenty-year life of the project technology. We have already raised the funds needed to deliver this project and have a tentative commencement date of March 2020.
We can scale up this project to a further four sites in 2020, if we can secure a minimum of 75% of the funds needed to deliver the project, i.e. £41,322. We have made a number of applications to potential supporters and would be grateful for the Trustees’ consideration of a gift at their discretion towards this amount.
Our goal is to improve the health of 4,728 people in four poor, off-grid communities in Surkhet District, Nepal using clean energy solutions. To improve health provision, four Health Posts will be equipped with solar powered energy systems enabling them to refrigerate vaccines and medicines and use energy-reliant equipment, e.g. nebulisers for the treatment of respiratory disease. To prevent indoor pollution related illness, we will train four people per community to construct and install improved cookstoves in 194 households, (20% of all households), while building demand for improved cookstoves across the four communities. A health awareness raising campaign will be conducted to ensure the uptake of new services.
We are really looking forward to the start of this project in the next couple of weeks and would like to thank all supporters, fundraisers and donors!
With Gratitude,
Nepal Health and Well-being
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