My name is Abdi Ma’alim. I’m quite new to ILF, I only joined this project here in Hagadera camp in January 2010. I’m 27 years old, and fled Somalia with my parents when I was just 7 years old. So I have pretty much grown up in this camp. I’m a stove monitor for ILF. I go out into the household blocks and do assessments of who needs a stove. We would like to give them to everyone, but we do not have enough! After identifying our beneficiaries, I invite them to our shed on a specific date. When they come there we train them on how to use the stove in the right way so as to maximize its efficiency. We then give them the stove.
I also do follow-up monitoring, to see if our stove is being used right and to gather feedback from the beneficiaries. I also try to do awareness creation, making my fellow refugees understand the benefits of using a fuel efficient stove (like our rocket stove) compared to cooking on an open fire which is culturally what we are used to. I’m quite glad to be a part of this project and I like my job a lot!
Abdi Ma’alim
Stove Monitor
Dadaab, Kenya
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