Sometimes we can find ugly surprises in a school kitchen where the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) have not been handled appropriately. Although we continuously train the school kitchen staff on how to best handle their IICS, things can suddenly go wrong. This is the case of Kitebi Primary School.

One of their IICS had started to corroded as a result of overfilling the saucepan. Because this IICS is used for cooking the beans, water with salt corrodes the metal body as water is spilled all over during boiling point.

It does not matter what degree of maintenance is needed, all schools receive free annual IICS maintenance for a 6-year period under the Project Activity registered with the Clean Development Mechanism and the Gold Standard. To avoid incurring in higher costs, we continuously train the IICS cooks and users to ensure we minimise the expenses incurred when making the repairs. This will benefit everyone involved, from the school management (IICS continue to save firewood), the cooks who handle a gsafe IICS and avoid injuries and Simoshi that can continue to support the school while generating the maximum amount of CO2 reductions.