As we wrap up a busy 2024, we are compiling many indicators collected for Simoshi’s Project Activity monitoring report, concerning the 115 schools that were supported in their kitchens and their cooking practices during these 365 days.
In this post we write exclusively about SDG 5 Gender Equality. Women are fully represented throughout the project, both at the beneficiary school level, and at Simoshi. This year, 140 women were continuously trained in the school kitchens, collecting their feedback on the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) performance and /or maintenance required, collecting information on their perception of the air quality, and sharing ideas of what we are endlessly learning, as we will soon make 9 years in this journey together.
Women power means ladies can also get the job done, and we thought of also sharing the picture of our founder Virginia Echavarria, getting some metal sheets cut for some IICS that got corroded and need welding this week!