[Stoves] Ghana Cook Stove

Nikhil Desai pienergy2008 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 18:02:03 CDT 2017


Some followup:

ASA Initiative's record on Kiva website is not so positive -
https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works/partners/392.

Average cost to borrower is 33% per year, delinquency rate is 59.33%, loans
at risk are 73.99%, default rate is 5.1%.

With do-gooders like these, selling $250 stoves, there has to be a Gold
Standard fakery.

Nikhil




On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The headline is sheer hype, considering that the first picture shows
> traditional mud stove outside the dwelling.
>
> At $250 a stove, no surprise that the ASA has made only 99 stove loans so
> far.
>
> Not terribly positive. Sounds more like selling "green" in the "green
> loans".
>
> At least these stove makers didn't have to go through the route of boiling
> water in test centers with dubious protocols, equipment and metrics. It is
> good to read "ASA worked with the community to determine the shape, size
> and color of the stove as well. The original design came from Italy, but
> they received feedback that the legs that weren’t strong and stable enough
> and that the color, a bright orange, was offputting."
>
>
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> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Daniel-John Peterson <
> exiledspirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Positive story from Ghana here. Any comments on this article?
>>
>> https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-
>> a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691
>>
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