[Stoves] Extension of Improved Stoves

[cornelio torrijos]

Hello Ms Choppalli Venkata Krishna,

I have read with great interest your email in which you stated  "...I have
witnessed with grief the 90% failure of Improved Stoves installed in my
coutry, INDIA.".

I believe that I can be of help to you in "solving" your problem which as
you defined it is: How to extend an Improved Smoke -Free Stove" to a rural
woman.

When you use the word "to extend" it seems to me that you really mean "to
change the preference" of a person (woman or man) from one thing to another.


I believe that in your country (like in my small country the Philippines
with only 90 million people) rural men and women are both proud of their
ability to cook. It is not just a "woman" problem although they are the ones
who do most of the cooking and spend the most time with cookstoves, improved
or not, modern or traditional.

Having lived in a rural area in my youth I understand rural women and men.
My home province is in a difficult mountainous region and as remote as any
other rural mountain area.

If you are willing to correspond by email with me for the next 8 weeks I
believe that I can be of help to you provided that you promise to think
seriously about what I will say to you and not just read the emails. I no
longer work in industry but spend most of my time on "NGO" type of projects.
I did commercial general business consulting work in the past.

My offer to provide volunteer work is to you as a person to person not from
me to an organization.The reason for this is that I am not trying to explain
things to an organization but only to one person about some of the realities
of "extension" or persuasion.

If you agree to this, please send me an email stating simply that you
promise to subsequently think about what I say and not merely read the my
next 8 to 10 emails.

It may interest you to know that I am a 66 year old male. No, I am not an
engineer or a stove maker though I have been experimenting with home made
"two-tin-cans charcoal stoves" and I have first hand experience with some of
the technical problems. My work and educational background is in marketing
and journalism. I have been researching on cookstoves and renewable energy
(biomass) in the past five months.

Yours truly,

Cornelio C. Torrijos
23 United States St.
Better Living Subdivision
Paranaque City 1711, Philippines
landline: (02) 821 5345
mobile: 0926 371 1942



On 5 Mar 2007 03:40:54 -0000, Choppalli Venkata Krishna <
krishnacreat1 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all
> I have been following keenly on the delibrations for the last 3
> months  mail by mail and gained immense theoretical knowledge.
>
> My problem is " How to extend an Improved Smoke -Free Stove" to a rural
> woman?
>
> This question I pose to all as I have installed around half a million
> stoves of different varieties and I have failed for their sustainability.
> Equally,I have witnessed with grief the 90% failure of Improved Stoves
> installedin my coutry, INDIA.
> Only lesson I learnt that " It is not appropriate if it is not appropriate
> to a Woman".
> And
> "There are as many choices for stoves as, as many households."
>
> There are abundant number of Improved stoves with excellent efficiency -
> but when it reaches the user, it is not accepted as well is not SUSTAINED.




Kindly help me
> Regards
> -C.V.Krishna
> Executive Director,
> Creat ( Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technologies,
> 208, Dharma Vihar, Jagamara
> BHUBANESWAR - 751030.
> Orissa, INDIA.
> Tel - 0674 -2350894; 074 2434632.
> FAX - 0674- 2380801.
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