Last school term of the year - term III - has commenced, and children are busy getting ready for their final exams that will take place next month by the end of November.

We have had several calls from various schools that requested Simoshi’s services, and we have visited some of their kitchens to measure the saucepan capacities in use and be able to prepare a quotation with the cost for replacing all with new institutional improved cook stoves (IICS).

It usually surprises us in a sad way, that many of these new schools are using a combination of 3-stone fires, together with stove constructions that have the look and feel of “improved”, but actually perform very poorly and consume a lot of firewood just as any other traditional appliance. The picture here below depicts the typical scenario of what we call a traditional kitchen, with poor ventilation, full of smoke, soot and ash flying in the air, and poor hygiene as a result inefficient firewood combustion.

At the moment we have placed the IICS order of different saucepan capacities for three new schools, and we will be sharing the pictures of their new kitchen environments very shortly.