It is exasperating to visit schools that made an amazing financial effort to procure improved cook stoves, and end up going back to cooking with the traditional 3-stone fires after 3 years. Cooking at schools happens 9 months of the year, and the stoves are under constant fire, one of the most powerful and destructive forces in nature. Eventually, the stoves will be destroyed if repairs are not scheduled continuously.

We had to share the pictures that speak by themselves, with the cook resourcing to preparing all meals with 3 stones instead of utilizing the white tiled stove, which used to be, sometime in the past an improved cook stove, but is today just a pile of rubble, a hole with tiles shamelessly surrounding it.