UNHCR Kebribeyah Refugee Camp Project Report: ON STARTING THE SCALE UP OF STOVES AND ETHANOL DISTRIBUTION July 9 – 16, 2006
Milkyas Debebe, Firehiwot Mengesha, Todd Wofchuck, Gaia Association Project Gaia Research Studies, July 18, 2006
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Project Gaia completed three months of pilot study in Kebribeyah refugee camp in 2005.
The study was successful and the stove had a very positive impact on the quality of life of
refugee women with the data showing that there would be large health gains as well.
Women also saved time, both in the time needed to cook and the time needed to collect
fuel wood. Normally women spend almost the whole day for collecting fuel wood but no
more for those who have the stove now. The refugee camp has 16,180 refugees registered
in total with a combination of 8250 females and 7930 males by now, with 10 different
tribes and more.
According to the agreement between Gaia Association and UNHCR for scale-up, the
number of households using CleanCook stoves in the refugee camps in year 2006 will be
increased by 500 over 2005, during which 300 stoves total were placed, 150 in Shimelba
Camp, 130 in Kebrebeyah Camp and 20 in Bonga Camp. We have actually set a goal
above this, which is to try to get 1000 stoves into the Kebrebeyah Camp.
The household members were very happy about the stove and they told us how much
difference it would make for them and all their family. After we completed the
distribution for the 300 stoves we called the previous 130 stove beneficiaries using the
refugee committee members and gave them each the 10 liters of ethanol for ten days.
They will come in every ten days to get ethanol according to the arrangement we made.
Now we have 430 households using the CC stove in the Kebrebeyah refugee camp.
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