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Building a boiler plant to provide heat for
Family Hearth Village Cost: $11,481.10 Status: Completed on 01/30/05. Thanks to kind donations by Lee Santilli, Microsoft Giving Campaign, Mikhail Arkhipov, Raven Jewelry, JoAnne Persico, James Martin, June Rengo, David Wagner, Financial & Investment Management Group, James Bell, Jim Stewart, Sherry Remez, Jonathan Soverns, James O'Gorman, Maui Salsa, Michael Rathbun, Anthony Bernard, Regina Richter, Sean Crowley, Lois Norman, Barry & May Hyman, Alex Dobuzinskis, Chris Braun, Bryan & Heraleen Bowers, Marnie Hackett, Genevieve Findlater, Edward Yaffa, Sankara Sankara, Akari Ueoka, Dorothea Nunn, anonymous and proceeds from Salsa on the Beach™, Salsa for Orphans™ on 07/30/04, and Salsa for Orphans™ on 08/27/04. Project Summary Building a boiler plant to provide heat for Family Hearth Village based on energy-saving technology using 4 solid fuel 80kilowatt KCHM5 boilers, setting up mud filters and chemical water treatment widgets. This boiler plant will provide heating for all units of the commune including living quarters, school, workshops, hospital, shelter for disabled and elders. It will also provide heat for livestock and greenhouse. See Project Details for more info. Project Updates Family Hearth Village has just won a grant that will cover buying 2 furnaces and parts! Also they were able to raise additional funds from other sources. Receipts
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Before Pictures  Project Details "Family Hearth" village is a charitable project which aims to place orphaned children in families and to create an appropriate environment for their upbringing. By the winter of 2003, a two-story apartment building had been reconstructed in the village by the Vladivostok Children's Aid Society. Since December of that year, four families and twenty-seven children taken from orphanages have been living in it. Unfortunately, all of the technical equipment in the apartment building's boiler-room, including the building's only furnace, had become decrepit after five years without use. Thus, our attempts to heat the apartment building proved inadequate. Even with additional heaters in some of the rooms, the average temperature in the building last winter was only around 9 or 10 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, as none of the equipment makes use of energy-saving technology, our use of the boiler room was markedly inefficient. We estimate it took three cubic meters of firewood (it should be noted that the building's furnace cannot be used on coal) to heat the building each week. As firewood is expensive (three cubic meters cost 2,500 rubles, or $88) we sometimes had to resort to burning tires. Finally, since there are no filters in the boiler-room, or a ventilation or purification system, its use has a profoundly negative effect on the immediate environment. Our project will move the boiler room to a separate building, site of a former military garage with a total area of sixty square meters. The building requires some repair: setting two doors and two windows, as well as some minor work on the walls and floor. Two Russian-produced universal furnaces for coal and wood heating (model ???5 with 80 kilowatts of power) and mud filters are to be installed in the new boiler-house. We chose this model of furnace for several reasons. For one, coal is readily available in the Primorsky region, where the coal industry is well developed. For another, this model of furnace can be fitted with special devices which allow it to be heated with liquid fuel if necessary. It can also be fitted with a special device, which we intend to install, that chemically purifies water. As a result, the furnaces' waste products can be used for making building materials necessary to reconstruct the village. We plan to lay piping from the new boiler house to the apartment building, as well as to the building that hosts the crafts and repair workshops. Whenever another building in the village has been reconstructed, we will lay piping to it from the boiler house. As a result of this project the infrastructure of the Family Hearth village will be improved greatly. The emission of harmful substances will be cut in half, and the consumption of energy will be reduced by two-thirds. Also, the significant retrenchment on firewood purchasing (61,000 ruble, or $2,140) will be used for village infrastructure improvements. There are many abandoned military bases in Primorsky Region. The positive experience of reconstructing one of them and modernizing its heating system to include energy-saving technology will set an important example for state institutions in Russia. Our project will also exist as real evidence of the existence of a strong, civil society in our country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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