It breaks our hearts to find in some school kitchens, when once upon a time, a new stove was constructed but today looks completely destroyed. There is no difference when it comes to firewood consumption or air quality when comparing it to a traditional 3-stone fireplace.
The lack of continuous maintenance leaves the stove’s combustion chambers broken, and as you can see from the pictures here below, they are just “holes” with tiles surrounding it.
Chimneys are usually blocked with soot, corroded or dismantled, so all the smoke from the firewood combustion finds no way outside the building, leaving cooks badly exposed to indoor air pollution.
Carbon finance has allowed us to use part of the revenues accrued from the sale of the carbon credits to repair all institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) for free, for a period of 10 years, to all participating schools.
For example, during 2023, a total of 65,725,000 Ugandan Shillings was spent repairing the IICS from 105 schools.
