GOOD NEWS! Many of you, perhaps, have heard that I am raising money to buy two new stoves for Royal Kids School. An anonymous donor has just told me that if I can raise $500 by SUNDAY NIGHT, they will match that amount, equaling in $1000 – enough to buy one of the stoves! Below is information about the stoves and why they are a worthy cause to give to. I will also give you the link to donate money towards this project. Thank you for your support and thank you to the anonymous donor who has generously made this offer!
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHOOL/WHY STOVES WILL HELP :
Royal Kids School has two kitchens. One kitchen is a sort of
shack right outside of the school building and the second kitchen is newly
built and is located on the other side of the school. In the new kitchen there
are two large stoves fueled by firewood that are used to cook for the majority
of students. In the old kitchen there are multiple small, charcoal-fueled
stoves used to cook meals for the staff and for the students with dietary
issues. There are three problems that these separate kitchen present:
1.The charcoal is expensive. To use charcoal everyday costs
more than the food itself and cuts deeply into the finances of the school.
2.Walking back and forth between kitchens to retrieve
cooking necessities, while it may seem trivial, is exhausting when it’s added
to the work of cooking for over 300 people every day
3.Sometimes, to try and conserve charcoal, the small meals
cooked for the staff are prepared on the large stoves. Because the large stoves
are extremely hot, there has to be more food than necessary cooked, resulting
in wasted food.
So whichever way you look at it, savings are being drained
by the use of charcoal (about 4400 schillings per month), and food is being
wasted in the effort to conserve charcoal.
WITH $2000, two new, small stoves fueled by firewood could
be purchased and moved into the new kitchen where the larger stoves are. The
old kitchen and charcoal-fueled stoves would be no longer necessary, therefore
eliminating the need to buy charcoal every week, and resulting in extra money
that could be used towards paying salaries or towards food and other
necessities for both the day-time students and the boarding students. Because
the stoves would be smaller, there would be no need to cook large quantities
for smaller staff meals, therefore eliminating food wasting. The food would
then last longer, and money would be saved for the school in this way as well.
This is a cause that will help the school in the LONG RUN and will help them
save money for YEARS to come.
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