That time of the year has come when schools finalise Term III and go off for their well deserved 2-month holiday. Which means school kitchens are closed, an ideal time for us to perform the free annual maintenance on all institutional improved cook stoves (ICCS).

Throughout the month of November, our team has visited all the schools and made a quality assessment on the condition of all operating IICS. This has helped us in organisisng maintenance activities taking place during December and January. Some IICS can be maintained on site at each kitchen, others in need of more serious repairs are collected and taken to the factory for their annual service.

We have got schools already operating their IICS for the third consecutive year. And they are performing just like the first day, making the same firewood savings throughout all of this time. This has been achieved because not only because the IICS have received annual maintenance but also because the kitchen staff has been continuously trained and assessed on how to best operate the stoves.