Cooking made easy

It is dusk in the Vaati family. Mrs. Catherine Vaati is busy preparing dinner for her family. After preparing the meal she puts up a sufuria of water on the jiko.The following morning, she finds the water still warm and uses it to take a bath.

A few weeks back, she used to wake up in the morning to prepare warm water for bathing. This is no more thanks to a domestic rocket stove jiko, a modern Jiko that the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Promotion of Private Sector in Agriculture (PSDA) and GTZ (a Germany programme) is promoting in Mutomo District

According to the District Home Economics Officer Mr. Benjamin Maingi, thirty (30) demonstration jikos have already been constructed in Mutomo District. He says that GTZ will fund for the project while the Ministry of Agriculture will do the mobilization, offer expertise, training,follow up and submitting reports.....Read more