holeco® life

holeco^® life is dedicated to products that preserve the environment and give back to the community. When purchasing holeco^® life products, you also contribute on larger level to promote unity and sustainability on a global scale. It was a natural decision for Honi to support the International Lifeline Fund's Clean Water and Sustainable Fuel Efficient Stoves projects as these are projects which have touched her heart for many years. As part of the dedication to global sustainability, 3% of all proceeds from holeco® life products are donated to these projects. By supporting holeco^® life, you are also supporting the livelihood of women and children in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya & Sudan by helping the International Lifeline Fund to provide sustainable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly solutions to the most pressing developmental problems in rural Africa. For more information, please visit http://www.lifelinefund.org

Clean Water:

Lifeline’s clean water projects are designed with the objective of making a direct impact on the commercial market for borehole drilling in Uganda by reducing the cost of drilling a borehole to the point where clean water becomes affordable to all who need it. Employing a highly specialized drilling rig, Lifeline has completed over 111 boreholes at less than $1,500 a piece – about one fifth the amount that most international agencies currently budget for the task. With each well serving a population of between 500 and 1,500, Lifeline’s water program is filling the clean water needs of more than 100,000 individuals at a cost of roughly $1.50 a person. Lifeline remains committed to the long-term objective of lowering borehole costs to the point where individual villages will be able to directly finance projects themselves through further innovations in technology and project design, completing the final step in establishing true ownership over the water they drink.

Fuel Efficient Stove:(Woodless Kilns)

The use of wood burning kilns to produce bricks is a significant source of deforestation throughout the developing world. To address this issue, Lifeline has been training brick-makers in Northern Uganda on how to construct and use a woodless kiln that is powered by rice husk. Lifeline is itself using these kilns to fire the bricks for its rocket stove and is planning to embark on a major training program to teach this technology to brick makers in Uganda, Haiti and Honduras. In addition to reducing deforestation, this technology will improve livelihoods for brick makers by reducing their costs and improve housing stock by enabling them to create cheaper and better quality bricks.

$50 water sponcer: provide clean water to 15 to 20 imoverished villagesrs for years to come

$100 stove sponcer: equip school serving 300-400 students with fuel-saving institutional stoves-freeing up money for supplies and teacher salaries

$250 water chief: provide clean water to about 80 vulnerable individuals for years to come

$500 stove chief: help 10 women establish themselves as stove vending entrepreneurs, thereby lifting themselves out of poverty and building local capacity

$1000 forest ranger; save about 3000 tress by providing fuel-saving clay stoves to 500 Ugandan families

$2500 water king; fund a fresh-water well that will serve an entire community (about 800 people)

$5000 fire god: provide fuel-saving clay/metal stoves to 800 families in s Somali refugee camp