Fri., May 6
Just 4 more days until we leave here to return to Canada. It will be good to see the family again.

My main project this week has been building a demonstration stove that uses less fule, (I’m told), and will take the smoke out of the house through a chimney. Traditionally in Kenya they build a fire in the center of three stones that hold the pot above the fire. This is even done inside the homes making for a very unhealthy environment. I am using locally made bricks and mud as morter to hold them together. Experience in Hounduras has shown mud works better than cement based morter as it dosen’t crack. It’s also cheaper.

The base of the stove ready for the smoke chamber, cooking surface and chimney.

While we were away Jotham finished putting the corrigated metal on the shelter under which we are building the stove. This evening, a neighbour picked up the metal part of the stove that a welder in town made for me, so tomorrow morning I hope to finish it and will have to wait a couple of days for the mud to dry before we build a fire for to test it. Being a prototype, it has been somewhat more expensive than it will be normally.