Changing cooking habits do not happen overnight. When schools move away from using traditional 3-stone fires to institutional improved cook stoves (IICS), a lot of training on how best to operate the new devices and education on all the different benefits from making such change has to happen.

These training sessions are on-going, at least 6 times per year, throughout the 10-year period Simoshi supports the school in such transition. Cooks and school staff might rotate or change, but we ensure to always be there in the kitchen to handhold the school with the correct use of the IICS to achieve a clean kitchen environment.

Yesterday we visited Police Children School Nsambya, and detected a commonly made mistake, when cooks use a smaller size of saucepan in the IICS. As you can see from the video below, the smoke from burning firewood is not pushed through the chimney pipe, and instead it fills the whole kitchen room, making it uncomfortable and unhealthy to all those around there.