Beneficiaries of LPG stove project
Loading...
Authors
Olivier Levallois
Issue Date
2015-10
Type
Language
en
Keywords
Energy
Alternative Title
Abstract
Afaf Mohammed Ahmed Atroon, mother of seven who was cooking with wood and charcoal. Afaf received an LPG set in February including a stove, a 5kg cylinder and a kisra-stove. She has now completely stopped cooking with biomass and has even delightfully moved away all the old stoves from the kitchen. The only consumption of charcoal she has is now only dedicated to ironing. Switching to cooking with gas happened very easily and from a day to another she had changed her cooking habits. She uses her new stove four to five times a day when she is home. She refills her cylinder every twenty days or so at the local market, souk al kabir (the big market). Apart for the 15 minutes she has to walk from the bus station to her house, she does not experience any difficulties carrying a full cylinder that weights around 10 kg. Her sister has now taken responsibility for cooking and she spend the day at the market to sell vegetables: potatoes, okra, tomatoes, onions, potatoes and chillies. She borrows money on a weekly basis, buy vegetables and sell them with a good profit. She used to spend 16 SDG a day on biomass and now spend 40 SDG for twenty days’ worth of energy. She uses the extra money to avoid her kids to walk an hour to go to school by taken the bus and pay for their lunch there. She used to take 3h to cook the breakfast in the morning and now only needs 1h to do the same thing! On the top of that while she used to visit the doctor once a month for eye infection, she has only visited him once since March. She seems to be a happier person than last year! This is very rewarding! As we arrived around 11 am, we were offered ful, assida and molah together with bread and hibiscus juice! We took a couple of pictures and left to the next household. Asha Mohamed Abdelkareem Sabeel, a mother of six, has received an LPG set in March that she only had to wait a month for. She has heard of it by her mother who is the chairperson of one of the local Women Development Association. She used to spend a daily 20 SDG ($2) on biomass for cooking. Since she received a stove, she has put away the equivalent to her daily saving in a box: 10 SDG. She has managed to save an absolutely unbelievable 2,800 SDG ($280) that they have used to build a new building and kitchen in their premises! While she used to go every other month to the doctor, she simply stopped going! She is now saving to support her daughter who will start university this year in North Kordofan state. I believe it is the household I visited that has felt the largest impact. From spending 4h cooking, everything can now be done within 1h. This impressive 3h of daily time saved is used to read and visit relatives. The third household we visited was made of twelve people. Fatima Ali Adam Mohamed, 23 year old daughter of ten siblings is the only person providing a regular monthly income of 150 SDG for being a secondary school teacher and is in charge of cooking. Fortunately the household also receives contribution from their relatives to support all their needs (totalling a monthly income of 700 SDG). She has paid 650 SDG for her LPG sets received in early August, buy the fuel herself and has been saving around 40 SDG a month that she uses to repay the monthly 55 SDG instalment. She finds it hard to meet ends as she will be spending more than before until the LPG sets is fully repaid. She would like to buy a larger cylinder (12.5kg) once she will have repaid the first set, to save even more money! The most important change for her has been the significant daily 4h saved she uses to help her 12 and 17 years old brothers to do their homework, rest, visit relatives and read about Arabic art. Khalda Adam Ahmed Adam, a mother of three, is the fourth and last household we visited. She bought an LPG set in August and only had to wait for two weeks before receiving it! She has heard of the programme from her sister, a neighbour of the WDAN financial director. Her first motivation to switch to LPG was related to the time she would save to prepare food and tea at 7 am for her kids before they start school at 8 am. From her 3h of additional free time she gets out of cutting her cooking time by half, she visits relatives and help her children with their homework. She has cut her fuels spending by six and is saving around 300 SDG a month that she uses to pay for her 11 and 14 years old children school fees. This avoids them to be kicked out on a regular basis as used to happen. Her mother, who suffers with her legs still cooks with charcoal as it enables her to cook sitting down.
Description
Citation
Publisher
License
All Rights Reserved