[Stoves] Ghana Cook Stove

[CHRISTA ROTH]

Actually  the stove is shown twice on that webpage, but I agree it is not very prominently featured and you need to know what you are looking for.

Also the info on the webpage is misleading when it comes to the pricing. I confirmed with Veronica Kitty from the ASA intitative that the 250 USD of the loan is for FIVE stoves. 

So each complete double-burner stove costs 50 USD and there is not much profit margin on it. 

For cost efficiency ASA prefers to give out larger loans and use group coherence as a collateral, thus the loan size of 250 USD received by one person on behalf of a group of five people.

This is the photo on the website showing the double burner in the phase of lighting one of the two fuel containers, so the potsupports from sturdy re-inforcement bars are not yet on. 



below is a photo of the double-burner stove after cooking, when it can also be used as a table...



I hope that clarifies some questions raised
best regards

Christa


> Am 10.08.2017 um 08:11 schrieb Dr.Ch.ADAM <scda2 at t-online.de>:
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> Hmm,a lot of photos about drilling machine, pots, vegetable, woman, pretending toe be a nicely done homepage-
> but not a single photo showing well the new stove !!?? !!
> Chris ADAM
> https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691
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> Von: "Nikhil Desai" <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>
> An: "exiledspirit at gmail.com" <exiledspirit at gmail.com>, "Discussion of biomass cooking stoves" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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> ASA Initiative's record on Kiva website is not so positive - https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works/partners/392 <https://www.kiva.org/about/where-kiva-works/partners/392>.
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> Average cost to borrower is 33% per year, delinquency rate is 59.33%, loans at risk are 73.99%, default rate is 5.1%.
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> With do-gooders like these, selling $250 stoves, there has to be a Gold Standard fakery. 
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> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com <mailto:pienergy2008 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> The headline is sheer hype, considering that the first picture shows traditional mud stove outside the dwelling. 
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> At $250 a stove, no surprise that the ASA has made only 99 stove loans so far. 
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> Not terribly positive. Sounds more like selling "green" in the "green loans". 
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> 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 <mailto:exiledspirit at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Positive story from Ghana here. Any comments on this article?
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> https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691 <https://medium.com/@Kiva/finding-a-green-local-solution-to-a-deadly-household-chore-7e61f0283691>_______________________________________________
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