I am sharing a typical cooking set up found in schools around Kampala. Sometimes efforts are made to purchase stoves, and I refrain myself here of calling them “improved cook stoves” just because they have tiles around them. That is another topic of discussion for another post (the unfortunate situation where manufacturers still sell stoves without proper testing certification).

The kitchens have (i) a combination of stoves in bad shape because of a lack of maintenance, and (ii) traditional 3-stone fires that are easily spread inside the building. In either case, all cooking situations are dirty and harmful for the cooks. You can see in the video there is no difference in the amount of smoke released from either one. Ash is also floating in the air, and we can only wonder how hygienic can this result if it ends up in the food…..

The good news is this Teacher’s Training College will soon be joining our Project Activity, so stay tuned for the updates on the kitchen transformation.