The time has come for children to celebrate another end of the school year. We are now coming to the end of the academic year 2023. Final exams are underway, many end of the year parties and graduation ceremonies are now taking place. Schools in Uganda will officially close their doors on the 30th of November. And both children and school staff will enjoy their well deserved holidays for the next two months.
For us here at Simoshi it means a busy maintenance season begins. This is the time we use to get the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) repaired as kitchens are not preparing the children’s daily meals. All maintenance events - from replacing bricks or plastering the combustion chamber, to welding corroded body parts and replacing old chimney pipes - are free of cost to the schools, every year, for 10 years. This is possible thanks to the revenues generated from the sale of the carbon credits, as individuals and companies choose Simoshi’s project activity when offsetting their carbon footprint.
Below are some images of this weekend’s work at two different schools in Kampala, where one top ring had to be repaired (it had corroded due to the school overfilling the saucepan), and another school had chimneys in need for replacing as they had become old and rusty (the IICS are in use since 2016!).
