LIFELINE FUNDINTERNATIONAL

OUR PASSION IS FOR A WORLD IN WHICH NO ONE IS FORCED TO DRINK CONTAMINATED WATER OR EXPOSE

THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILIES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT TO THE HARMS ASSOCIATED WITH COOKING ON AN OPEN FIRE.

With our passion at the core of what we do, Lifeline’s mission is to bring clean water and fuel-efficient stoves to displaced and impoverished communities in Sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti.

In order to accomplish this mission, Lifeline embraces an entrepreneurial spirit, a bottom-up philosophy to development and a flexible operational approach.

Lifeline's clean water and sanitation (WASH) and fuel-efficient stove (FES) programs use the most cost-effective technologies and self- sustaining interventions, thereby providing disadvantaged individuals with the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty and improve the quality of their lives.

Aimed at slowing deforestation and building the capacity of local women, Lifeline launched its first humanitarian stove project in Darfur in 2006. Over a period of 18 months, Lifeline provided stove production training to women and distributed 16,000 fuel-efficient stoves to families living in IDP camps.

HUMANITARIAN

gandaIn 2006, Lifeline began distributing clay stoves made from locally available organic materials in IDP camps in Northern Uganda.

Lifeline is currently partnering with the World Food Program to produce 5,000 of these stoves in rural Northern Ugandan communities. The bricks used in Lifeline’s rocket stove are constructed from local clay and rice husks and fired in a woodless kiln. The bricks are then bound together in a hexagonal shape and clay is molded.

10,000stoves

distributedFuel Saving:40%

Fuel Source:Firewood

Cost toProduce:$3

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enyaFor over 15 years, Kenya has been playing host to scores of thousands of Somali refugees near the tiny town of Dadaab – a remote outpost that lies about 50 miles from the border. The large refugee population, which now totals more than 500,000, has strained the fragile desert environment and has all but exhausted what little firewood could be found within walking distance.

To address the dire wood situation, Lifeline has been implementing a fuel-efficient stove program, which has improved the health and living standards of some 85,000 refugees that have been taught how to use them.

17,000stoves

distributedFuel Saving:44%

Fuel Source:Firewood

Cost toProduce:$8

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COMMERCIALIZATION

In 2008, Lifeline began producing a metallic, charcoal-burning stove in Uganda that the local community dubbed the Okelo Kuc or "peace-making stoves". Okelo Kuc stoves are sold by local vendors and produced by local artisans, fostering a vibrant market for the production and sale of fuel-efficient stoves in Northern Uganda.

aitiLifeline arrived in Haiti in early February 2010 - just weeks after the devastating earthquake of January 12th. After launching its humanitarian stove program in Haiti and distributing 11,000 stoves of a variety of designs in urban resettlement camps throughout Port-Au-Prince, Lifeline launched its commercial stove program in September 2011. In partnership with The Adventure Project, Lifeline’s stove vendor project now has a network of female vendors selling the Recho Plop Plop+ - a metallic charcoal burning household stove designed specifically for Haiti.

14,353stoves

distributedFuel Saving:40%

Fuel Source:Charcoal

Cost toProduce:$18

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gandaSince the inception of Lifeline’s commercialization program, 18,000 stoves have been sold, benefiting approximately 90,000 Ugandans who live in a household that cooks with the Okelo Kuc and more than 35 small businesses that sell it.

Lifeline’s production center in Lira has the capacity to produce 1,200 household stoves each month. The

production center Lifeline is currently opening in Kampala will be able to produce twice that number.

18,000stovessold

Fuel Saving:35%

Fuel Source:Charcoal

Cost toProduce:$8

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In 2009, Lifeline began building institutional fuel-efficient stoves for health centers, orphanages, schools, colleges and prisons. Lifeline’s institutional stove program currently operates in Uganda and Haiti.

INSTITUTIONAL

gandaMost institutions incur tremendous monthly costs paying for firewood for cooking. Lifeline’s institutional stoves provide an attractive, cost-effective alternative, reducing the amount of wood needed for cooking by 60%. These institutional stoves are produced by local staff trained in stove production and are sold and installed at a nominal cost.

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since 2009Fuel Saving:50%

Fuel Source:Firewood

Cost toProduce:$160

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aitiIn 2010, Lifeline began implementing an institutional stove program in Haiti in conjunction with WFP’s School Meals Program. These institutional stoves are fueled by paper-waste briquettes, thereby completely eliminating the need for costly charcoal. Each school saves an average of $90 per month.

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Fuel Saving:100%

Fuel Source:Paper-wasteBriquettes

Cost toProduce:$8

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884 million people in the world are left without access to clean water. 11 million of them live in Uganda. Lacking access to any protected water source, approximately 60% of the population of Northern Uganda is forced to drink from stagnant pools, exposing themselves to water-borne diseases that claim the lives of more than 22,000 Ugandan children every year.

CLEAN WATER

Over the past five years, Lifeline has completed over 230 boreholes at an average cost of

$4,000 per borehole, a fraction of the market cost. To date, Lifeline’s water program has

filled the clean water needs of

approximately 150,000 individuals at a cost of $6.00 a person.

Without access to clean water, it is virtually

impossible for vulnerable communities to pull themselves

out of the poverty cycle.

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“Community Involvement & Ownership”

Lifeline requires community participation at every stage of borehole construction in order to ensure communities’

sense of ownership over their new water source. By working with and treating communities as active agents of

development rather than passive recipients of aid, Lifeline ensures the long-term sustainability of its projects,

empowering communities with the necessary knowledge to maintain their own borehole without relying on further

assistance from Lifeline.

THE LIFE PHILOSO

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“A Holistic Approach”Lifeline’s Sanitation & Hygiene team ensures the long-term success of Lifeline’s water projects by

working with communities to carry out multi-faceted hygiene and sanitation initiatives.

Through the creation and training of Water User Committees (WUCs) and Village Health and Sanitation Trainers (VHSTs), as well as the

distribution of Sanitation Promotion Items in every community where a borehole is drilled,

Lifeline has trained 150,000 people in life-saving sanitation practices to ensure the maximum

impact of the community’s newly acquired clean water source.

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“In house provision of clean water”

By conducting its water operations “in house” (that is, with its own drilling rigs and its

own trained drilling team), Lifeline has been able to cut out the “middle man”, thereby drastically

reducing the cost of drilling a borehole.

FOOD AND WATER ARE TWO ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS THAT HUMAN BEINGS MUST HAVE IN ORDER TO LIVE. LIFELINE INVITES

YOU TO JOIN US IN ENSURING THAT EVERY PERSON ON THE PLANET HAS ACCESS TO “CLEAN WATER, CLEAN

COOKING, FOR LIFE.”

International Li fel ine Fund1730 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite B1

Washington, DC 20009, USAPhone: 202.986.4719

Email: info@lifelinefund.orgwww.lifelinefund.org