American Publishers Provides Fuel-Efficient Cook Stoves to Haiti and Central America as Part of Their Tree-Planting Promotion

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ten ‘rocket elbow’ cooking stoves are being given to Haiti and ten fuel-efficient cooking stoves will be given to struggling families throughout El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The ten stoves in Haiti are especially valuable after the recent earthquake; the ones in Nicaragua are metal, portable and especially useful for making tortillas; and the brick stoves in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are noted for being fuel-efficient while creating significantly less indoor pollution.

“When American Publishers executives heard about the need for healthy, fuel-efficient, cooking stoves for people in Haiti and Central America, their desire to help fix the problem indicated a level of compassion and generosity almost never before seen in Corporate America.”

The new, fuel-efficient cooking stove donations are part of American Publishers’ tree-planting partnership with the Plant-It 2020 foundation. For every 3,000 trees planted under this partnership, more of these new stoves are donated. This means more than 100 stoves in total for the next two years.

The typical cooking stove emits lots of indoor pollution, which leads to respiratory and other diseases but these new cook stoves eliminate nearly all of the smoke, which should improve family health. As these cooking stoves use 70% less wood, the demand for trees to be cut down decreases as does the family expense of buying wood.

Michael Thau, Executive Director of Plant-It 2020 says, “When American Publishers executives heard about the need for healthy, fuel-efficient, cooking stoves for people in Haiti and Central America, their desire to help fix the problem indicated a level of compassion and generosity almost never before seen in Corporate America.” Richard A. Hasselbaum, President of Periodical Publishers’ Service Bureau (of which American Publishers is a division) says, “The idea of being able to directly help many people means a lot to us at PPSB and American Publishers.”

The American Publishers tree-planting promotion refers to a tree being planted for every three new or renewal magazine subscriptions by the same person. American Publishers have already had hundreds of thousands of trees planted through Plant-It 2020 and many more will be planted in the years to follow.

If you’d like more information about how American Publishers is improving the lives of needy families in Haiti and four Central American countries, please call Michael Thau at 303-221-0077 or email Michael at plantit@mac.com.