FIRST BATCH OF MAYON STOVES
July 5, 2011
Perla Manapol (pictured at the left) is the president of an organization known as Sustainable Rural Enterprises based in Aklan, Philippines. Her fervour to help the poor and at the same time helping the environment is contagious. She initially infected Ambassador Benny Tan (pictured on the right) with the concept of stoves that burn waste materials giving the masses an alternative to cutting down trees for fuel. In turn Ambassador Tan infected Dennis Drake and Juviro Hagup (pictured in the center) of IDEA Philippines with the vision. Now a group of deaf men working with IDEA Philippines are producing these wonderful rice hull burning stoves. Ambassador Tan even gave a grant for 100 stoves which will then be made available to low income people on Bohol. IDEA hopes to introduce these stoves in Leyte and employ some of the deaf high school graduates there as well.
So here stands the team of promoters behind the first batch of Mayon stoves to come off the still crude but improving, assembly line at the IDEA Philippines shop. It was great to have Perla to demonstrate the proper way to use the stoves and give the IDEA staff tips on marketing them. In her demonstration of the stove and only using rice hulls as fuel, she was able to get one liter of water to a boil in only six minutes. That’s a hot fire.
Ambassador Tan demonstrates lighting technique for the stove.
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