As the month end, we welcome St. Lino Junior School to our Project Activity. Yesterday we delivered 3 institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) to cater for all cooking needs for their 500 children population.

This school has managed to benefit from a 40% discount on the IICS cost thanks to the support provided by SNV. For us, we do not charge any mark-up on the costs, on the contrary, we are always looking for grants to make sure we can help schools further as they move away from traditional cooking practices. The prices we are charged from the IICS manufacturer, Ugastove, are the exact same prices we charge the schools joining, and whenever possible, we look for funds to have them discounted.

St. Lino is currently finalising the construction of their new kitchen building. In the meantime, we have placed all 3 new IICS inside without having the chimneys installed, as we await for the builders to give the finishing touches. We are sharing here below the current kitchen the school has been using for the past ten years, a typical basic construction with metal sheets, no doors nor windows, no flooring, and traditional cooking stoves.