Healthy and Safe Kitchens - Ituba Namalowe - Namutumba
Visit by Harriet Kefeza on 2020-09-16
- Report ID
- 10256
- Created by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Created date
- 2020-09-17 10:08:44 UTC
- Modified by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Modified date
- 2020-09-17 12:06:41 UTC
- Trip Time
- 09:35-04:56 (-5 h 21 m)
- Village Time
- 11:56-14:56 (3 h 0 m)
- Travel Time
- -8 h 21 m
Kitchens all groups
- Lesson Taught
- demonstration stove
- How Many Men Attended
- 2
- How Many Women Attended
- 8
- Staff Attendees
- Tape Bwana
- Government Attendess
- LC1,VHT
- Visitor Attendees
- None
- Total Attendance
- 10
- Program
- Healthy and Safe Kitchens
- Notes
- Tape went to Ituba Namalowe to teach the participants in the lower section how to practically remove banana stems from the previously built stove.
She reached in the village and found when the participants were eagerly waiting for her. The chairperson of the village opened the meeting with an open prayer where he thanked the Lord for providing journey mercies to kibo staff to come and work in their village.
Tape asked the group to walk with her to the home where a demonstration exercise was to be carried. She also asked the participants to be attentive and ask questions where they did not understand because they are expected to learn how to build stoves so that they build more stoves on their own.
She asked the participants to give her a panga / a shovel to use to remove banana stems. After removing banana stems she removed the dirt that was stuck inside to allow free entry and exit of air for the stove to be effective. She explained to the participants that if she leaves the dirt that was stuck inside it will dry there, become hard to remove later and also affect easy flow of fire from the big cooking pot to the small pot and it can also effect the venting of smoke.
She then shaped the stove using apanga,she expanded the hole for firewood creating more space that can be used to roast maize Incase some one wanted to roast to avoid the participants to use the three stones to roast maize which may easily lead to fire accidents.
She asked the participants to bring, ash, cow dung and sand that she used to smear a complete stove. Tape smeared stove that she had just removed the banana stems.she also told the participants that it is important to smear the stove immediately after removing the banana stems to enable it last longer and look neat. She also asked the owner of the home to always smear the stove and the entire kitchen every after two weeks
The participants wanted to know if they can start cooking on their stove on that very day and Tape told them to wait for more three weeks for the stove to dry very well before they start cooking on it. She also told them that if they rush cooking on it before it had dried it will easily crack.
She encouraged them to stay working together as a group until every one in the group gets a stove.
- Next Visit
- 2020-09-21 - Purpose: To teach participants in the lower section of the village how to practically build stoves.
- Program Success
- Most participants in the upper section who got stoves earlier now cook on them on daily basis.
- Program Critical Needs
- Need to encourage smearing to some homes that are still lagging behind.
- Program Ownership
- Most people who got stoves earlier ( upper section) now cook on stoves on daily basis.
- Other Program Observations
- Sanitation and hygiene standards have been maintained.
- Program Expected Of Village
- Chop enough grass that will be used to build stoves as well as continue smearing their home facilities.
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- Call the group leaders for future mobilization as well as prepare the next lesson.