Healthy and Safe Kitchens - Ikumbya - Luuka
Visit by Harriet Kefeza on 2019-12-06
- Report ID
- 7781
- Created by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Created date
- 2019-12-11 11:29:55 UTC
- Modified by
- Harriet Kefeza
- Modified date
- 2019-12-11 11:44:51 UTC
- Trip Time
- 10:02-05:43 (-5 h 41 m)
- Village Time
- 12:48-03:11 (-10 h 23 m)
- Travel Time
- 5 h 18 m
Kitchens all groups
- Lesson Taught
- follow up smearing
- How Many Men Attended
- 3
- How Many Women Attended
- 48
- Staff Attendees
- Harriet Kefeza
- Government Attendess
- LC1
- Visitor Attendees
- None
- Total Attendance
- 51
- Program
- Healthy and Safe Kitchens
- Notes
- Harriet made a surprise visit to Ikumbya village and this was intended to assess whether the participants cook on their stoves on daily basis or have kept their home facilities well smeared.
She reached in the village when no one was expecting her and started walking home to home while inspecting the stoves. It was interesting to find when all the members were using their stoves on daily basis and this was evidenced by the absence of three stone fire in the kitchen, in some homes she found food cooking by itself while in other homes food was being attended on by children.
One of the participants called Sulai Mugoya told Harriet that the stove helped him to eliminate cases of fire accidents because before he got a stove his child Babirye was burnt by water that was cooking on unstable traditional three stones. He added that basing on the amount of money he spent to treat his burnt child he was forced to participate and learn how to build stoves.
He added that having got a stove, learnt how to build stoves , he decided to travel to his home village of origin ( Lambala in Kamuli district) and decided to teach them the benefits of stoves and how to build stoves which has also improved on their lives.
Participants also told Harriet that the stoves help them to use less firewood to cook food, cook fast however most of the participants were lacking the fire risen stands in their kitchens to store firewood and Harriet taught them about it and they promised to build them too.
- Next Visit
- 2020-01-09 - Purpose: To follow up on the construction of fire risen stand for firewood storage.
- Program Success
- Most home facilities have been smeared and every one cooks on the stove on daily basis.
- Program Critical Needs
- Continue encouraging teamwork.
- Program Ownership
- Most people cook on their stoves on daily basis.
- Other Program Observations
- Mvule community members are busy rearing their chickens.
- Program Expected Of Village
- Continue smearing their kitchens, stoves and other facilities.
- Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
- Call the group leader for further mobilization.