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Training

For Proyecto Mirador, training and education are the keys to successful stove installations.

After construction of a Dos por Tres stove, the technician explains the maintenance steps to each beneficiary.

Training begins during a community meeting held to inform any interested beneficiaries about the project, the materials they will need for construction and the importance of maintaining their stoves to get the stoves to work at maximum efficiency and to last 6 years.  

Immediately after the stove is built, each stove builder or Técnico is trained to give a Training Charla (talk) to the user to explain the maintenance steps and proper use.  The maintenance tool, called El Cinco (because there are 5 maintenance steps) is demonstrated not once but twice with the beneficiary participating in the process.  

After the demonstration, each family receives a color printed brochure to remind them of the importance of the maintenance steps, how often to do them, and other ways to help them conserve fuel.  About a month later, beneficiaries are revisted to see that they are taking proper care of the stove during our Monitoring phase. Users will be revisited again after 6 months and again after 1 year.

This woman in rural Honduras demonstrates the 5 steps needed to maintain her stove with the El Cinco tool.

  • She is demonstrating one of the maintenance steps to show she understands how to maintain the stove.
  • The next step is a community meeting to explain the Dos por Tres to beneficiaries.
  • These women will learn how to get a Dos por Tres stove and how to care for it.
  • Tecnico Kelvin has finished stove construction, given a maintenance demo to the family and put the cinco on the wall behind him.
  • Demonstrating the correct amount of wood for maximum stove efficiency.
  • A sample of the Use and Maintenance Brochure given to every beneficiary after installation.
  • Supervisor Sindy checks the level of wood ash with the stove user on a follow up visit.
  • We teach users to dry the wood on their stoves so it burns more efficiently.
  • The Cinco and the manual are placed next to the stove. (Photo courtesy of C. Boulton)
  • After a solicitation is made any interested village members attend a community meeting to learn about the stove.