Healthy and Safe Kitchens - Igerera B - Namutumba

Visit by Harriet Kefeza on 2020-07-10

Report ID

9217

Created by

Harriet Kefeza

Created date

2020-07-14 08:31:30 UTC

Modified by

Harriet Kefeza

Modified date

2020-07-14 09:23:20 UTC

Trip Time

09:50-17:00 (7 h 10 m)

Village Time

11:43-15:07 (3 h 24 m)

Travel Time

3 h 46 m

Kitchens all groups

Lesson Taught

assignment check,follow up smearing 

How Many Men Attended

2 

How Many Women Attended

4 

Staff Attendees

Harriet Kefeza 

Government Attendess

LC1 

Visitor Attendees

None 

Total Attendance

6 

Program

Healthy and Safe Kitchens 

Notes

Harriet made a surprise visit to Igerera B and this was intended to find out whether the participants who got stoves before the covid 19 started using their stoves and if not why or what could be the challenge. She found the chairperson LC1 Charles who volunteered to walk with her through the homes that got stoves before covid 19. He added that he knows all the homes Because he is a Chairperson of the village and also a member of the Healthy and Safe kitchen program in this village. Harriet told him that this time she wants to concentrate on upper section because kagulu village is big. The chairperson told Harriet to begin with his home that lacked a kitchen before and therefore he could not get a stove during that time . He also said that as the stoves committee they agreed to first build stoves for all the group members and for them they will get the stoves later because they wanted to lead by example. Interestingly Harriet looked at his kitchen which was under construction which was very cool. He said he had a poor kitchen that he felt was not Good enough for the fuel efficient stoves and decided to build a better one. They walked through around 21 homes where by some did not have stoves though they were members because due to the outbreak of covid they stopped gathered thus an able to build stoves for the remaining participants who were active in a group. Also some had smeared their kitchens getting ready to get stoves while others were demoralizing by covid 19 because they did not hope kibo to go back to their village to get stoves. HARRIET encouraged them to improve / smear their facilities in preparation for stove building. However other members who got stoves before covid19 were busy cooking on them on daily basis and were well smeared except for Kakuku Laston and Mpata Ali who said that their small stoves don’t cook. These stoves were built by the community on their own and were poorly built. Harriet told them to be using only one cooking area which works effectively and kibo will come back to fix the problem. The community was encouraged to see Harriet visiting them in their homes and they said they felt loved by kibo that has always visited them and corrected their mistakes. 

Next Visit

2020-07-20 - Purpose: To fix the two stoves that were not working properly as fell as follow up on smearing.

Program Success

Participants who have so far got stoves have embraced them.

Program Critical Needs

Need to encourage smearing of some homes that are not yet smeared.

Program Ownership

Participants with stoves cook on them on daily basis.

Other Program Observations

They constructed a strong brick borehole fence.

Program Expected Of Village

Continue smearing their home facilities.

Program Staff Preparations Next Visit

Prepare the next lesson.

 

Report Photos

Mariam was found cooking food for the family as the parents were busy in the gardens planting crops.