A meal after twenty minutes
Besides being economic and efficient, the stove can also be cleaned, is not as smoky as an open fire, and is safer than the traditional fireplace.
"It is very good for cooking," says a younger woman, demonstrating how the stove works. "It only takes me 20 minutes to cook instead of two hours," explains the mother of six.
Like all the other families in the camp, she cooks asida, a porridge that she makes from the milled grain given them by the humanitarian agencies working in the camp.
"The women in the camps have many responsibilities. They are often alone with their children, because their husbands have either died in the war or have gone away to earn money for the family," says one of the community mobilizers who are training the women.
Additional training sessions to show women how to make and use the stoves in order to make life easier for women in the camps are being planned. |