[Stoves] RE RE chimney pot

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Pamela

>Is this a WFP assisted school Crispin??

Uh-h...that is a little unclear.  The WF is active here in Neighbourhood
Care Points as is UNICEF and others.  There are more than 450 NCP's nearly
none of which have improved stoves.  They all get food but not all are
registered for WFP assistance. Some are funded by Rotary Clubs and all sorts
of helpful people.  It is very encouraging actually how many volunteers
there are involved - the number is in the thousands.

The Mhlababovu (Red Dirt) school is a formal primary school but it has a
large number of OVC's attending (orphans and vulnerable children).  As a
result they are feeding 330 children about half of whom are given food
(probably by WFP is my guess) and the other half are fed by the school
somehow because it would create social problems if some are fed and some are
not.  It is extremely offensive culturally to eat in front of someone who
has nothing.  The orphans should not appear to be favoured.  This
installation is a new development supported by the Rotary Club of Malkerns
Valley and ProBEC. It will have 4 pots, 4 fires, all indoors.

Some groups, notably Children's Cup, are building Lion Stoves in various
places in Swaziland. There are perhaps 50 stoves them around this area where
I am.  Fuel savings at the well run NCP's are about 75%, cooking one Kg of
food (usually soup and porridge) with 115-160 gm of wood (based on a ProBEC
survey of 40 sites).  Well run usually means an experienced fire operator
(often a different person from the cook) and well dried wood.  It is
interesting to note that the best operators (115gm/Kg) do not follow the
common advice on how to run a Lion stove (which is basically a type of
Rocket stove with preheated air). They use quite short pieces of wood, not
long sticks burned at the end.

Swaziland is on target to received 500 Climate Care funded Lion Stoves (70
litre pots) as soon as the launch in Lesotho is well under way.  Lesotho is
more difficult to work in so we (GTZ/ProBEC) are starting there.

Regards from sunny Swaziland
Crispin