During holidays, most schools continue to use the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) for the staff that live within the school premises.

This is very unfortunate, because despite our continuous training to the cooks, they mistakenly use the wrong IICS saucepan sizes. Because they cook for fewer people, they use small containers in bigger stove diameters.

This mistake creates an accelerated damage to the combustion chamber, corrosion to the stove inner jacket, and excessive and unnecessary unhealthy smoke inside the kitchen building.

The video below was taken earlier this week at one of the participating schools under our Project Activity, and shows exactly what we are describing.