HuffPost, November 28, 2020
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/hope-stoves_ca_5fc2daa7c5b68ca87f84c530
The stoves are easy to put together and can burn for 12 hours straight.
As winter creeps closer and temperatures drop, many people without homes will be looking for ways to stay warm and one man is hoping to help.
Mike Hay, a contractor and business owner from Nanaimo, B.C., has been making “hope stoves” to give to those in need.
Hay loves to camp out in Vancouver Island’s backcountry, and is familiar with how frigid the weather can be sleeping in a tent.
He and his wife take donated wax, wicks and paint cans and turn them into portable heaters that recipients can use to stay warm and heat up food. They melt the wax and pour it into the cans, filling them halfway, then add 5 cotton wicks to each can. The top half of the can and its lid all get holes punched into them for airflow.
The “hope stoves” have lids for two reasons: so they can be cooked on and to keep users safe. If the cans tip over, the melted wax will put out the flame.
“We definitely want to help people, not hurt people. With the paint cans, that lid can be banged on after it’s lit… wax will definitely spill out of the holes and make a mess but the fire’s completely contained in,” Hay said.
The couple make about 10 stoves a night. Each unit can burn for about 12 hours straight. They’ve paired up with thrift shops to set up drop-off points so people in the community can donate, and posted a video teaching others how to make the stoves.
Hay said people receiving the stoves were unsure about them at first but welcome them now.
“At first I was apprehensive but I just go up to them and say, ‘hey, can you guys use one of these?’ and they’re like ‘what do you have there?’ and I explain it to them and then it is nothing but smiles and appreciation and gratitude.”
The Divine Mother’s
Blessing & Virtue
of Hope
The Mother’s Blessing and Virtue of Hope is what She calls bedrock, understanding equal Love for our masculine and feminine energies, Her Patterning of Gender Equality within/without.
From that place of gender equality within
we create gender equality without — it’s physics.
Homelessness is not of love; it is a state of being of feeling unwanted and unlovable. With contemplation, it is easy to see how we have allowed this belief in separation to happen over thousands of years.
Can we now Love ourselves within, in equality, to the point where we affect change without?
2021 is almost upon us.
May this be a year of Love In Action
where we create societies that work for everyone.
Calling on the Divine Mother for help.
The Mother’s Blue Diamond Energy of Hope for Balance Everywhere
