Greetings Readers, Since my arrival in Guatemala on March 1st, life has been a whirlwind of change and adaptation. The coronavirus pandemic has been in full force for the past six months, and the borders and airport are still tightly closed. There’s speculation that flights will resume on September 18…

Hello StoveTeam supporters, As you know, we are a TEAM, and I am just the face you see instead of the hundreds of volunteers, an extremely committed Board of Directors, and our wonderful staff. We started helping local entrepreneurs build stove factories in 2007 by assisting Gustavo Peña to start…

Dear Readers, Happy Monday to all, from bright and sunny Santiago Zamora (Guatemala). Our state of calamity has been going strong since March 9th and coronavirus is hitting Central America hard. Different countries are tackling it in ways that their governments see fit. We hear that the airports shall open…

The past year may have had more than its fair share of challenges, but it has also been filled with successful ventures and new beginnings for StoveTeam. Today we’re sharing ten of this year’s biggest wins!

StoveTeam recently received the results of a third-party study on the effectiveness of our Ecocina cookstoves at reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a leading cause of climate change. Previously, we had used figures determined through laboratory studies which found that on average each stove reduces carbon emissions by 2.5 …

Craig Gutowski is the founder of The Foundry, a stove and barbecue distributor in Ontario, Canada. Last year Craig approached StoveTeam with the idea that the stores he works with could invite their customers to donate a stove through StoveTeam along with each of their purchases. The idea took off…

In October of 2019 StoveTeam hosted 18 volunteers in Guatemala for a week of building and distributing clean cookstoves. The group included five kids under 18 years old, and one of them named Zaiya shared their experience with us! My trip with the Stove Team was adventurous, to say the least. When my mom first told me that we were volunteering with…

Our International Program Coordinator Alex Eaton has already hit the ground running, setting up meetings with StoveTeam contacts and stove experts as he made his way from his home in North Carolina to his new home in Antigua, Guatemala. Here is his first official update from the field. I would…

In 2010, Peter Schmidtke from Rotary Magazine interviewed Gustavo Peña, the owner of StoveTeam’s partner factory in El Salvador, Inversiones Falcón. …