Perseverance pays off, at least here at Simoshi we always claim to never give up…..and we love to share stories such as the one from Mariam High School. This is a girls only boarding school with 460 pupils, a school we have been visiting since early 2017, visiting the kitchen, sensitising the school administrators, and annually checking up on them as we explained why joining Simoshi’s Project Activity would be a good choice.

The school called us this week to announce some great news! They will be destroying their old stoves and getting rid of the 3-stone fires this January, starting the school term in 2023 with their new institutional improved cook stoves (IICS). They have been consuming 8 trucks of firewood per term, and we cannot wait to see them reducing their consumption to half as we bring the new IICS to their kitchen.