Give the Gift of a Healthy Planet

ECOLIFE FOUNDATION

P.O. Box 462845
Escondido, CA 92046
www.ecolifefoundation.org

Choose a meaningful gift this holiday to help children and families in Africa,
Mexico and San Diego, California receive clean water, sustainable shelter and
education.

$150 provides a family with a fuel-efficient stove and plants
More than 100,000 trees a year are cut for fuel around the monarch
butterfly reserves in Mexico. With an estimated 900,000 human
inhabitants in the region, efficient fuel-wood use is an important goal
for forest conservation. The most common cooking method in this
region is to cook over an open fire. This method is not only unhealthy
because of smoke inhalation, but is also very inefficient. ECOLIFE
Foundation, with Cuatros Elementos and GIRA is building stoves to
conserve wood and eliminate inefficient cooking fires that account
for most of the trees cut by poor local communities. Each stove
reduces wood use by 60% and eliminates 46 tons of carbon
emissions. To date ECOLIFE has provided over 300 stoves to families.

$400 will provide a student participation in a four- day
watershed stewards training program.
In collaboration with the San Diego Zoo and Groundwork
San Diego – Chollas Creek, ECOLIFE is working with
underserved students in a hands-on program to protect their
watershed. These students live near one of the most polluted
creeks in the United States – the Chollas Creek of San Diego,
California. Chollas Creek is listed as one of the most polluted
water bodies in the US because metals, toxicity, and coliform
data indicate that beneficial uses are being impaired. These
students are becoming conservation champions and leading
their community in creating a healthier coastal area. To date,
this program has served over 3000 underserved students in
San Diego.

$200 will provide a student one year of clean
water or one year of housing in a sustainable
dormitory.
ECOLIFE FOUNDATION and Save the Elephants
believe schoolchildren are Africa's hope for a
sustainable and politically stable future. In
Samburu, northern Kenya, local schoolchildren
drink unclean water from the rivers in the area
because their schools lack the methods necessary
to collect potable water, such as wells or rainwater
collection tanks. ECOLIFE FOUNDATION has
implemented a self-sustaining program to provide
clean drinking water, solar energy, as well as safe
and sanitary housing for more than 100 elementary
school children at West Gate School in Kenya.

$150 will provide a student one year of clean water.
ECOLIFE FOUNDATION is implementing watershed health
efforts through outreach in Uganda, Africa where the
primary cause of death is water borne diseases. There,
school children drink tainted water from local rivers
because schools lack methods to collect potable water.
To date, ECOLIFE Foundation has provided clean water
for 650 Ugandan schoolchildren by building a water bore
hole. This generation of Ugandan children--growing up in
Africa's volatile political climate--will internalize a
powerful conservation lesson.

ECOLIFE FOUNDATION is a 501c3 organization providing ecologically
sustainable water, food & shelter to communities,
through education and outreach.