We have started the new year with the right foot and great news. Simoshi was successfully selected in a competitive process to participate in the Covid-19 economic relief fund.

Energising Development (ENDEV) is a global multi-donor partnership (implemented by the Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ) that facilitates access to modern energy in more than 25 countries. In Uganda, Endev has provided the COVID 19 Economic Relief Fund for the cooking energy and off-grid solar sector in order to support firms to cope with the hardships related to the pandemic. Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) was selected by ENDEV to manage such fund.

In the next three months, SImoshi will be assissting 18 Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) primary schools by changing all of their traditional cooking devices to institutional improved cook stoves (IICS). These schools will also benefit from free IICS annual maintenance for five years as a result of Simoshi’s Clean Development Mechanism and the Gold Standard Project Activity “Institutional Improved Cook Stoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda”.

The pictures above are from this week, setting off from our office as our Project Officers continue to work in the field sensitising school staff and parents about the benefits of using an improved cook stove. The second and third pictures belong to the KCCA Munyonyo Church of Uganda Primary school, a beneficiary of such grant. The kitchen was assessed and saucepans measured as the new IICS are getting ready for manufacturing.