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| Members of the People's Focus Consulting Company visit the kitchen of
the Jyengkhana primary school in Haa. |
Fuel
efficient stoves in the schools are well maintained and used according
to the president of the People's Focus Consulting Company, Yukiko Kuroda,
who was in the country to evaluate their assistance to schools in Bhutan.
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private company from Japan had donated 45 stoves to 15 schools around the
country last year through the World Food Programme (WFP).
"We
are happy with the result and we will continue our assistance," the president,
who visited the beneficiary schools last week, said. People's Focus Consulting
Company is a global programme and donates 1 percent of their company's
revenue every year to the WFP in Bhutan.
Many
of the schools in Bhutan depend heavily on firewood to cook meals on traditional
mud stoves or makeshift stoves in traditional kitchens with poor ventilation
systems. "The fuel efficient stoves use less wood and are more efficient,"
said the head teacher of Jyenkhana primary school in Haa.
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saves us a lot of cooking time and it emits a lot less smoke than the traditional
style cooking stoves."
According
to the WFP the fuel efficient stoves consume 50 percent less wood than
the traditional stoves. An individual in Bhutan is estimated to consume
about 1200 kilogrammes of wood in a year using a traditional stove.
According
to WFP programme officer Naoe Yakiya, 30 fuel efficient stoves will be
supplied to 10 schools mostly in eastern dzongkhags this year. |
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The
seven people from Japan visited Samtengang and Nahi in Wangdue-phodrang,
Kabesa in Punakha and Ugyen Dorji higher secondary and Jyenkhana primary
school in Haa last week.
At
present WFP provides food assistance to more than 169 schools around the
country.
| Contributed
by Dema, Kuensel 2005 |
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