Improved Cookstoves for Schools, Burundi
Location
Burundi
SDGs Contribution
7
Solution Type
Energy Efficiency
Project Type
Carbon Reduction
Fact File
🔥 The stoves installed are enclosed, reducing open fires accidents due to the wind.
👩🏾🍳 The working conditions of the women in the school kitchens is therefore significantly improved.
👨🏾👧🏾👦🏾 Instead of students' parents spending hours on looking for firewood in the forest, project participants organize the free supply of biomass briquettes to schools.
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About this Project
The Problem
Between 1990 and 2010, Burundi, which is landlocked and classified as a Least Developed Country, lost 40.5% of its forest cover. In parallel, supplies of renewable biomass amount to more than 1.3m tonnes / year, but aren't used.
In most schools, kitchens consist essentially of using an open fire system (3-stones), and traditional stoves. These stoves are notoriously wasteful with an efficiency level of 10-15%, and they produce harmful smokes.
It is also difficult for parents to provide the 2 kg of fuelwood needed for the canteen, per day and per schoolchild.
The Solution
The project consists in locally-manufactured improved cookstoves for Burundi’s schools and aims to switch from non-renewable logged trees to a sustainable energy supply: briquettes made of renewable biomass.
The project takes place in schools all over Burundi, and thanks to the project, children living in deforested area are no longer afraid to go to school because they do not have cooking wood. The attendance rate therefore rose from 75-85% to 98% on average.
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