Healthy and Safe Kitchens - Kalitumba - Namutumba
Visit by Harriet Kefeza on 2019-07-31
- Report ID
- 6245
- Created by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Created date
- 2019-08-02 06:12:00 UTC
- Modified by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Modified date
- 2019-08-07 06:07:18 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:07-17:22 (7 h 15 m)
- Village Time
- 12:26-15:07 (2 h 41 m)
- Travel Time
- 4 h 34 m
Kitchens all groups
- Lesson Taught
- adjustements
- How Many Men Attended
- 5
- How Many Women Attended
- 16
- Staff Attendees
- Jeska Nairuba,Tape Bwana
- Government Attendess
- VHT
- Visitor Attendees
- None
- Total Attendance
- 21
- Program
- Healthy and Safe Kitchens
- Notes
- Tape and Jeska went to the village to teach the community members from the upper side of the village how to remove the banana stems from the energy saving stoves because they didn’t know how it was carried out. When they got there, they found the women gathered at one of the home where the stove had been built.
The members warmly welcomed kibo staff with smiles and songs. Among them was the program committee Chairperson Madam Dinah who went ahead and updated kibo staff about the stoves and activities so far carried out and some challenges they faced while using the stoves.
Some members reported that the stoves cracking and not cooking very well as they expected, and after looking at them together, Tape and Jeska put everything right by explaining to the members how the stoves should be maintained such as smearing them once in awhile using cow dung mixed with ashes. And before smearing them, they would first refill the cracks with soil dust and sprinkle little water all over them and later continue with the smearing.
They also advised the members who had built the stoves at the wrong direction to break it and see that they build it at the right wind direction which would enable the stove to catch fire easily and cook faster. Later on, kibo staff went and demonstrated how the banana stems were taken out from the stoves while explaining every step to the members because they needed to master every skill of building the stoves in case the kitchens program stopped operating in their village.
However,the banana stems were successfully taken out from two stoves that day and the members thanked kibo staff for the lessons taught, promising to always work hard as a team in their community so as to live a happy healthy life with their families. The meeting then came to an end with the members wishing them a safe journey back home.
- Next Visit
- 2019-08-05 - Purpose: To guide the community in building the stoves.
- Program Success
- Some of the members have smeared all their buildings and also using the fuel efficient stoves for cooking.
- Program Critical Needs
- To continue encouraging the men to participate and help their wives in repairing and smearing their buildings
- Program Ownership
- Good leadership skills
- Other Program Observations
- Some sanitation and hygiene facilities are well maintained such as the dish racks, shower areas and latrines.
- Program Expected Of Village
- To continue repairing and smearing their houses
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- To plan for the next meeting