[Stoves] integrating stoves and development - Kenya and beyond

[Paul S. Anderson]

Bob and all,

Your comments are highly appropriate.  They also match well with the  
approach that is use in the BEF (Biomass Energy Foundation) Gasifier  
Stove Camps (workshops).  We would like to have your inputs at the  
camp in Uganda on 20 - 24 June this year.  Christa Roth and I are the  
BEF instructors in Uganda and we are seeking similar outcomes to what  
you have mentioned.

Information is at    www.tridecca.com/bef   see the Uganda link.  If  
you or any of your associates can attend, please reply to me directly  
so that we can integrate the issues into the camp activities.  I think  
you will find the TLUD gasifier stoves to be a valuable addition to  
your efforts.

I am still in Australia after completing the BEF Camp here  (very  
successful and well attended)  with an emphasis on biochar.  But after  
16 May I will be back in the USA and focused on the Uganda activities.

Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Known to some as:  Dr. TLUD    Doc    Professor
Phone (USA): 309-452-7072   SKYPE: paultlud   Email: psanders at ilstu.edu
www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/giz2011-en-micro-gasification.pdf   (Best ref.)

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> Subject: [Stoves] integrating stoves and development
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> In my work with the Maasai in East Africa, I am very concerned that the
> stove development not only help with health, conservation, and women's
> labor.  I also want the procurement and labor related to the stoves to
> result in money circulation in the local economies.    Quality in
> manufacturing must be a goal, but we must accept the challenge to accomplish
> this without all the economic stimulation occurring in Asia.    Creating
> distribution businesses for imported finished items is not enough.   We need
> commerce, manufacturing, skill development, procurement, production to
> develop along with the stoves.   That is integrated stove development.
>
> It is more effort.  But the accomplishments of local people and their
> excitement, satisfaction, and energy makes it more than worthwhile.  also we
> get better stoves!
>
> Collectively we claim as a goal the empowerment of women.   That has to be
> more than having women be active in distribution companies for imported
> finished goods.   Our work with the Maasai shows no limit to the
> appreciation of women when brought into all aspects of the stove development
> and distribution effort.   The Maasai women have said "people don't come to
> our communities normally and show that we women can be involved in new
> things, can accomplish difficult tasks like these."     The women can learn
> why the stoves are designed as they are, can be involved in field
> development, and can learn about the measurement of smoke and carbon
> monoxide.
>
> We found, for example, that our stove was not physically stable under the
> vigorous stirring that occurs in the cooking of "ugali" a corn meal dish.
> the pot moved around too much, and smoke leakage around the pot became
> severe..   It meant sitting in the houses with the women and cooking ugali
> alongside them, looking at their solutions to the problem and then working
> with them, and local craftspeople, to make the stove adequate in this way.
>
> Field development is our key.  Not just field testing.  Stoves and
> development.  True women's empowerment.  Economic stimulation.   Increasing
> industrial strength.
>
> Bob
>
> Robert V. Lange
> the ICSEE
> 508  735 9176
> www.maasaistovessolar.org
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> we don't want the econonic stimulation to flow to Asia except for the
> creation of distribution businesses.
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