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

[Tom Miles]

Crispin,

I put the attachment on the web at the URL at the top of the Pam's message:
http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/wfpsept07

Tom
http://stoves.bioenergylists.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org [mailto:stoves-
> bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 2:48 PM
> To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] An Up-scale of the Use of fuel-efficient stoves
> in the preparation of school meals in WFP assisted schools.
> 
> 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.
> 
> This message list does not support attachments so we did not receive
> the
> attachment in your message. If you can send a link to a website, we can
> download it.  If you want, you can log onto the stoves website and post
> it
> there, then announce the link so we can download it is we have the
> bandwidth
> to do so.
> 
> Best regards
> Crispin
> 
> C Pemberton-Pigott
> Programme for Biomass and Energy Conservation (GTZ.ProBEC)
> SADC countries
> Southern Africa
> crispinpigott at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
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