On the dates of August 12^th and 13^th three Tonacalli kitchen samples were installed in the villages of Los Reyes and Mixtla de Altamirano in Zongolica. These will be used as models for these and other neighbour villages’ families so they can get to know the advantages and functioning of this efficient technology. 

 When you take smoke out of the house, you protect the whole family’s health. According to some research by the Hospital del Mar – IMAS and the Instituto Municpal de Investigaciones Médicas (INIM) the exposition to fire-wood smoke for 16 years or more, is a strong factor of respiratory diseases like lung ??, EPOC or lung cancer. All of them, incurable, whose palliative treatment is highly pricey.

 Moreover, these families count with 40 liters of water warmed only with waste heat that would be lost otherwise.

 Communitarian promoters from both villages participate with eagerness and compromise, because they know well that the Tonacalli kitchen will bring their communities the opportunity to improve their lives conditions.