[Stoves] Billion Stoves Program (Karin Troncoso)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

Asking someone in my office if they knew what the work 'cookstove' means, 
drew a blank.  So in a survey of 2 people, 100% think that the American word 
'cookstove' might be inappropriate.

People in Africa do seem to understand 'cooking stove' automatically without 
an explanation that cookstove means a stove on which cooking is done.

Now a 'crookstove' is one that is 'not the right one' (no kidding, I am 
quoting here...) and which does not perform the way it was advertised.  It 
is the unfortunate experience of many people that they buy a cooking stove 
only to find that it is actually a crookstove.

We don't need a billion crookstoves hitting the market so perhaps we should 
be really careful with what we promote!

As the humourist quipped while donating blood...."I do this in a jocular 
vein."

Regards
Crispin