Last Sunday we were busy delivering 9 institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) at Kakungulu Memorial Secondary School. This is a school with a big population, with more than 2,000 boarding students.

As such, the kitchen is busy cooking for lunch and supper, and the delivery was a complicated one, that took almost all day until the kitchen was set and functional.

They work does not stop there. The most difficult part now begins, as we train cooks on how to operate the IICS and transition towards a sustainable kitchen environment. This is an on-going activity that is reinforced on a monthly basis. Intensive daily training sessions take place during the first week, and a lot of resistance is found as cooks are not used to cooking saucepans of 500 litres capacity with just small firewood sticks.

We share below some of the activities that took place over the weekend. Shortly, we will be uploading a video as the kitchen becomes fully operational. Stay tuned!