Mbale women in love with Rocket Lorena
Dec 06, 2004
OVER 50 households in Mbale district have adopted new Roket Lorena energy saving stoves.
By John Kasozi
OVER 50 households in Mbale district have adopted new Roket Lorena energy saving stoves.
The stoves have been constructed in the three sub-counties of Kaato, Buwabwala and Bushika with assistance from Integrated Rural Development Initiative (IRDI). Mrs Beatrice Kakaya, of Bundamba (A) village in Babuulo county, says the Lorena a multipurpose stove, has reduced firewood needs in the area.
“Target communities have been trained to construct and utilise the stoves,†Andrew Yiga, community organisation officer, says.
Now, the community is able to make either new two potholed stoves (Lorena) and single potholed stove, which was introduced by UNICEF.
“They now use half the amount of firewood compared to when they used the old Lorena stove. It was able to save 35 to 40 per cent of the heat compared to Roket Lorena, which saves about 66 per cent. It is a newly developed stove from the Roket stove and the old Lorena stove,†Yiga adds. “It operates on the elbow principle, which makes it more efficient than any other stove in Uganda. It has a combustion chamber.†The stove body is insulated. The insulated body starts from the firewood box, the combustion chamber and where the pot rests. This also contributes to its efficiency as all the heat is retained. Apart from conserving fuel wood, low smoke emission, less fire accidents and faster cooking, the stove is been used as an oven for baking. The improved environmental health, reduces cough and flu. The Rocket Lorena stove’s building materials can be cheaply acquired locally. The challenge lies in the reluctance of men to construct kitchens and also the absence of ant-hills and clay soils.
Betty Waiata, a member of Sinje Women’s Group of Buwamboka village says different materials such as saw dust, dry grass, coffee and rice husks, pumice, ash, sand, anti-hill soils and vermiculite are used for insulation.
The size of the stove varies according to the size of saucepans. The pot rest allows pots to extend inside hence leaving a small potion for handling it when removing the saucepan. It also has a two-centimetres space around it, which enable the heat to spread around the saucepan.
This makes the food to get ready fast. The firewood chamber is constructed below the first cooking pot rest, where you place firewood. It also has a shelf for resting firewood. The chamber lets in air to the tips of firewood required for burning. The combustion chambers enable full combustion of the released gases.This eliminates pollution and increases the temperature of the flames, which allows fast cooking using less fuel. The stove has a chimney, which extracts smoke from the kitchen and necessitates the heat to move to the second pot rest.
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OVER 50 households in Mbale district have adopted new Roket Lorena energy saving stoves.
The stoves have been constructed in the three sub-counties of Kaato, Buwabwala and Bushika with assistance from Integrated Rural Development Initiative (IRDI). Mrs Beatrice Kakaya, of Bundamba (A) village in Babuulo county, says the Lorena a multipurpose stove, has reduced firewood needs in the area.
“Target communities have been trained to construct and utilise the stoves,†Andrew Yiga, community organisation officer, says.
Now, the community is able to make either new two potholed stoves (Lorena) and single potholed stove, which was introduced by UNICEF.
“They now use half the amount of firewood compared to when they used the old Lorena stove. It was able to save 35 to 40 per cent of the heat compared to Roket Lorena, which saves about 66 per cent. It is a newly developed stove from the Roket stove and the old Lorena stove,†Yiga adds. “It operates on the elbow principle, which makes it more efficient than any other stove in Uganda. It has a combustion chamber.†The stove body is insulated. The insulated body starts from the firewood box, the combustion chamber and where the pot rests. This also contributes to its efficiency as all the heat is retained. Apart from conserving fuel wood, low smoke emission, less fire accidents and faster cooking, the stove is been used as an oven for baking. The improved environmental health, reduces cough and flu. The Rocket Lorena stove’s building materials can be cheaply acquired locally. The challenge lies in the reluctance of men to construct kitchens and also the absence of ant-hills and clay soils.
Betty Waiata, a member of Sinje Women’s Group of Buwamboka village says different materials such as saw dust, dry grass, coffee and rice husks, pumice, ash, sand, anti-hill soils and vermiculite are used for insulation.
The size of the stove varies according to the size of saucepans. The pot rest allows pots to extend inside hence leaving a small potion for handling it when removing the saucepan. It also has a two-centimetres space around it, which enable the heat to spread around the saucepan.
This makes the food to get ready fast. The firewood chamber is constructed below the first cooking pot rest, where you place firewood. It also has a shelf for resting firewood. The chamber lets in air to the tips of firewood required for burning. The combustion chambers enable full combustion of the released gases.This eliminates pollution and increases the temperature of the flames, which allows fast cooking using less fuel. The stove has a chimney, which extracts smoke from the kitchen and necessitates the heat to move to the second pot rest.
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