Stove Manufacturer Training in Budhanilkanth near Kathmandu, November 2009
As always everything starts with the theory.
The correct tools are important.
"Our" stove manufacturer Santa Kaji, with Trainer and Regional Coordinator Damodar Karki (from left to right).
Training location: courtyard of the Himalaya Boarding School in Budhanilkanth, ca. 10km north of Kathmandu.
Sadhuram Bista, an experienced co-trainer, also participated.
Equal rights: the majority of the course participants are women.
The stoves are mainly made from clay.
The clay is filled into forms...
... and cut into shape.
The bricks must dry for a few days depending on the weather conditions.
The stove is built using the rectangular bricks.
A pile of square bricks with holes forms the chimney.
First of all: it's important that the walls are the right size.
Iron bands keep the openings and supports in shape.
The round opening for a cooking pot can be seen already.
The socalled baffle, the slope under the hole for the lefthand cooking pot, is important to ensure that the smoke exits through the chimney and that the left hand cooking pot is also well heated.
The final form of the stove can be clearly seen.
Fine tuning of the cooking plates: the pots must fit perfectly without any gaps.
The square bricks with holes are piled up to make the chimney.
A protective cover is fitted at the end of the chimney...
... and the cooking stove is finished.
Normally the pipe at the end of the chimney must pass through the wall, but we didn't get the authorization to drill a hole in the school wall.
This is how the completed chimney with pipe would look from the outside.
Is everything OK?
A local school class was also interested in the training.
Many of these children grew up in the city and see our cookers for the first time.
