To promote the demonstration, development and transfer of low carbon technologies at the community level, by empowering Santa Elena to reduce GHG emissions by capacity-building and installation of renewable and sustainable energy systems.
Solar energy
GATE School Gardens program
The rural Maya and Garifuna people of Belize’s Toledo District rely to a great extent on subsistence slash and burn style agriculture focused on three major crops – corn, rice, and beans. This type of traditional agricultural practice uses 5-7 times the land space as sedentary agriculture. As the district’s population grows, it exerts increasing pressure […]
Plenty Belize
Plenty Belize provides educational and technical support to primary schools, women’s groups, and community efforts to reduce poverty, produce food, clean energy and water, and protect the environment.
2016 Spring/Summer Plenty Bulletin
(2015 Spring/Summer Bulletin Bulletin) 2015 Spring/Summer Bulletin
(2014 Fall/Winter Bulletin Bulletin) 2014 Fall/Winter Bulletin
November 2014 Dear Friends of Plenty, You’ve probably heard by now that Plenty’s founder and mentor, Stephen Gaskin passed away on July first of this year, right before our annual Plenty Board meeting. He hadn’t been directly involved with Plenty over the past few years but, without his original inspiration and vision, Plenty would […]
Plenty Bulletin Fall/Winter 2014
November 2014 Dear Friends of Plenty, You’ve probably heard by now that Plenty’s founder and mentor, Stephen Gaskin passed away on July first of this year, right before our annual Plenty Board meeting. He hadn’t been directly involved with Plenty over the past few years but, without his original inspiration and vision, Plenty would […]
(2012 Fall Bulletin Bulletin) Plenty Belize
Plenty Belize began our single largest project to date in August of 2011, an EU funded solar project for San Jose Village with a Mayan population of more than 1,000. The total cost of the project is $200,000 with $187,000 from the European Union (EU) and $10,250 coming from Plenty and $11,000 coming from the […]
(Spring 2012 Bulletin) Plenty Belize: School Gardens Update
In southern Belize, bordering Guatemala, Plenty Belize teaches students how to grow gardens at school and home, installs village water and solar energy systems to make clean water and electricity accessible, and provides small loans and assistance to women and micro-businesses for income generating projects. Plenty International’s goal is to raise $40,000 in 2012 in […]