Lotte Junior School joins our community of 115 schools that currently participate under our registered Project Activity with The Gold Standard. Over the past weekend, we installed 4 institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) of different saucepan capacities that will help prepare the daily school meals.

With the support from SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, the school purchased the 4 IICS with a 40% discount. These IICS are manufactured by Uganda Stove Manufacturers Limited (Ugastove) and we are proud to be able to make them more affordable with such grant.

As Simoshi, we do not make any profit from selling IICS, on the contrary, we are continuously looking for financial resources (grant, donor support and carbon finance) to lower the price and make them accessible to schools, to comfortably transition away from using traditional cooking practices. Below are some pictures of the new IICS, although the school is currently also building a new kitchen structure, so we are hoping to move the 4 IICS and make the chimney installation by the end of this year.