By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
Evaluating the adoption of improved cookstoves, our team’s latest report featured this photo (above) taken with a cell phone. The tagline: “Mr Daha and his wife make cookstoves for sale”, showing the couple, without their cookstove. When we asked why there was no cookstove in the photo we were told: everybody knows them and their famous improved cookstoves. Their skill is well known in their own and the surrounding villages.
Their improved cookstoves are only made to order, or on demand. Depending on the client’s needs they make three models: A small, medium and large (the two-stove model in photo 3) Selling improved cookstoves gives them access to much needed cash in the ‘époque dure’ the ‘hard times’ right now. They were very proud to report that they were able to buy a piglet by their own means, without relying on Zahana’s microcredit. This is another great example how our projects, in this case microcredit and improved cookstoves are intertwined.
The team agrees that they have invented one of the most innovative and spiffy looking improved cookstoves. It is also considered one the best.
Translating the prices for improved cookstoves into a dollar amount creates a challenge without the cultural context. But it is safe to say, as a bench mark, that the smallest improved cookstoves cost about a one day's wage of a day laborer.
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