Volunteer

Objective of this project is to create partnerships with tea/coffee estates to implement our cookstoves.

Description of project

Objective of the project is to identify coffee and tea plantations in India, Laos, Nepal, or East/West Africa that would like to parter with us to disseminate Prakti cookstoves among their workers living on their estate. We are looking for a volunteer who can lead efforts to make this happen. More details on Prakti cookstoves at www.prakti.in

In order to do that, one needs to

i) Conduct research to identify relevant coffee and tea plantations (location, size, type of crop, etc),

ii) Determine the contact information of decision makers, and

iii) Make contact to discuss the opportunity.

The project entails both research as well as conversations with the prospective partners to forge the partnership.

This project is critical for our organization to scale our efforts to deploy Prakti cookstoves in the developing world. We have successfully conducted pilots of Prakti cookstoves where we have received amazing feedback. Our next step is to deploy these cookstoves at scale at tea and coffee estates. By doing so we will be positively impacting the health of cooks (mostly women, children), saving them time (in gathering wood, in cooking), reducing their expenses, and reducing release of toxic gases in the atmosphere.

Objective of this project is to research and compile past carbon financing initiatives for improved cookstove projects.

If we are able to get carbon financing, we can subsidize our stoves and even offer it for free. This will dramatically increase the target audience that can adopt our improved cookstoves. We have cookstoves ready to go and the main barrier is affordability. Carbon financing will help us overcome this last barrier!

Description of project

Carbon financing is an incredible tool that will allow us to make Prakti cookstoves highly affordable for even the poorest families! But, carbon financing must be done carefully and responsibly so that it benefits both the users as well as the environment. There have been multiple examples where carbon credit projects were ill-considered with stoves that people didn’t like to use or that didn’t perform as they were promised, causing a burden to the cooks as well as invalidating the carbon credits themselves. See [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3gaelBypY) for an unsuccessful stove project example (starting at 9:20min).

In order to ensure Prakti’s carbon financing is as successful and mutually beneficial as possible, we want to do a review of past carbon-financed stove projects and learn everything that we can about what mistakes to avoid and what advice to follow. Check out our website [www.prakti.in](http://www.prakti.in) for details on our cookstoves.

This project involves:

- Researching online about Carbon financing projects
- Compiling findings (lessons learnt, what worked, what did not work, etc)
- Creating a short written report or slide deck summarizing your findings


Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with Online Research
- Basics understanding of Carbon financing
- Written communication skills

Objective of this project is to create engaging content (images, infographics, videos, gifs, etc) that we can use on our website and on our various social platforms.

Description of project:

We have a lot of compelling photos and videos from our implementations of Prakti cookstoves. We now need to turn these amazing assets into compelling and engaging content that we can use on our website (www.prakti.in) and our social channels (instagram, youtube, facebook, linkedin).

This improved content will help us engage with our prospective donors and volunteers, educate them, and communicate our impact in a more effective way.

This work will have a direct impact to the amount of money we can raise and on volunteers, thus increasing the number of cookstoves we can deploy in the field.

This project involves:

- Going through our existing assets (photos, videos) and turning them into engaging content (images, videos, infographics)

Objective of this project is to improve engagement from our social media channels.

Description of project:

We want to use social media primarily to educate people about our cause (impact, what can they do), raise awareness and engage with prospective donors and volunteers.

Although we have revolutionary cookstoves, we don't have the experience or bandwidth to use social media to tell our story effectively. We are looking for a social media superstar who can run some of our social channels (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tiktok) for sometime and in addition teach us on how to do so.

Increasing effectiveness from social media channels will lead to increasing awareness about our mission and will translate directly to increase in donations. This will enable us to increase our scale of implementations globally

This project involves:

- Creating content for various social channels (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tiktok)
- Increasing our engagement and growing our audience