Peru Healthy Kitchen/Healthy Stove Pilot Project

摘要

Most rural indigenous people of Latin America live in poverty in communities that rely heavily on biomass and other solid fuels for cooking and heating. Communities at higher elevations in particular are often exposed to severe levels of indoor smoke from inefficient burning of fuels in open fires or rudimentary stoves in poorly ventilated spaces. Exposure to indoor air pollution (IAP) poses a serious health risk of respiratory infection, causing illness and even death for those who spend the most time in the home cooking environment, namely women and children. Beginning in 2003, the energy team of USAIDs Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, and the environmental health team of the Bureau for Global Health jointly supported a cooperative agreement with Winrock International to develop models to reduce indoor air pollution by combining fuel-efficient cooking technologies with behavior change messages and market-based distribution mechanisms. Winrock developed two project models: a peri-urban model piloted in Bangladesh for poor households and a rural model piloted in the highlands of Peru for indigenous communities.