[Stoves] An Up-scale of the Use of fuel-efficient stoves in the preparation of school meals in WFP assisted schools.

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Pamela

Welcome!

We have certainly been looking forward to your arrival, even though we did
not know who it would be.  We have had many discussions on this very list
about the importance of convincing the WFP, UNICEF and other major players
in the food relief scene that food needs to be delivered with a means for
preparing it.

This is a big day for us.  We are acutely aware that the impact of feeding
schemes, which nearly always involves congregating people in numbers, uses
all the fuel in the nearby area, especially when the people being fed are
displaced persons which no stoves at all.

>Together with our various partners, we have installed hundreds of stoves in
>programmes in Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, The Gambia,  Laos, Lesotho, Malawi
>and Tanzania whose impacts have not only contributed to the conservation of
>forest resources but also triggered community development; as the case in
>Tanzania where women have been trained to replicate the school stove in
>their homes.

All these countries have been serviced by members of this discussion list
and it is here that ideas - from whacky to conservative - are tossed around
to varying receptions.

>I have joined this group not only to share our experiences  but also
>network with you all on strategies of up-scaling the use of fuel efficient
>stoves in making them a basic requirement of a WFP school feeding 
>programme rather than stand-alone projects that we have now.

This scaling is a subject very dear to my heart because it opens who new
arenas of saving, efficiency and cost reduction.  The artisanal approach
which you mention above is suited to certain environments, but large scale
impact in many urban centres will attract (we hope) major players to the
market, offering stoves made to very high performance and safety standards.

I think you will find a wealth of design and engineering information freely
available to you and your contacts on the website that supports this list,
made available to us all by Tom Miles in the USA.

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Best regards
Crispin

C Pemberton-Pigott
Programme for Biomass and Energy Conservation (GTZ.ProBEC)
SADC countries
Southern Africa
crispinpigott at gmail.com