[Stoves] advice for chimney wood stove for rural Burkina Faso

[Francesco Vitali]

Dear all****

I am writing you for having a suggestion. ****

I am from an Italian research center on appropriate technologies for
environmental management.

Me and my colleagues are working on a water&sanitation project in a rural
area in Burkina Faso. The local NGO partner in the project asked us a
suggestion on a model of improved wood-stove to disseminate on site. We
have some experience in stove dissemination (Chad and Cameroun), but in
this case the info requested by the local partner goes a bit beyond our
knowledge.


Currently we are not on site, so we have to give them an answer from remote.

 The main constraints are:****


   - Time: the partner local  NGO wants to start the training for artisans
   within two weeks
   - budget available from the project is very low (about 1,500€ for some
   50 stoves)
   - local reproduction: the stove has to be built by local artisans,
   properly trained
   - location: the stove has to be placed inside the kitchens (circular
   huts in mud with thatched roofs, typical rural buildings)
   - a chimney for smoke removal is required according to  preferences
   expressed by local users
   - local technical skills and tools are really basic (no electricity, no
   welding, low availability of metal parts, mud/brick stoves are likely to be
   the preferred option)

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If someone has any successful experience in similar contexts or a good
advice, it will be very welcome! in particular we are looking for simple
manuals or technical drawings to send to our local partner.

looking forward for your advice, thank you in advance
best regards
Luca Rondi, Francesco Vitali

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