Despite schools closure, we are still busy repairing all the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) from our participating schools under the project activity “Institutional Improved Cook Stoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda”.
IICS are under fire every day, sometimes longer hours for boarding schools. If not maintained, the efficiency gradually decreases and schools end up consuming a lot of firewood, just like they did with their old traditional stoves. That is why Simoshi has been maintaining all IICS every year since 2016. And this is done for free. Schools do not pay for any maintenance related cost. We manage to cover these as part of our carbon financing project. Part of the revenues obtained from the sale of the carbon credits are shared with the schools, in different ways. One of them is by providing fee annual IICS maintenance for 7 years.
We share below a short video of our colleague Henry, plastering an IICS of 30 litres capacity. If this plastering is not reinforced every year, the insulation bricks underneath the plastering get damaged, and after 3 years, they will start dismantling, exposing the metal firebox that is supporting the whole chamber.