Schools have been on holidays during the month of May, as they await to kick-start Term II on Monday 27 May. This is the best time to get new institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) delivered and installed as kitchens are not operating.

Six new schools have joined our Project Activity “Institutional Improved Cook Stoves for Schools and Institutions in Uganda” registered with the Gold Standard during this month.

We share pictures from the installation done at Mbogo High School in Kawempe. This is a boarding private secondary school of 1,000 girls attending. They have 2 kitchens on site, and 10 IICS of different saucepan capacities were installed.

We now enter into a collaborative effort as Simoshi will be supporting the school for the next 10 years, ensuring the new IICS continue saving at least 50% of firewood, by repairing the stoves for free through the whole period, for as many times as needed. This is paired with continuous training of their kitchen staff, to achieve the highest clean kitchen environment standards.