Simoshi Limited Social enterprise helping schools move up the energy ladder in Uganda

Simoshi’s energy efficient stand-alone project activity registered with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Gold Standard (GS) is capable of bringing a cleaner, healthier and environmentally friendly technology to low-income individuals, especially women and children, by changing the traditional cooking practices used in schools in Uganda. Simoshi outsources institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) from the local manufacturer Ugastove and promotes and sells/distributes them to schools and institutions. The behavioral transformation Simoshi brings to schools through an effective management of change and subsequent support to the continuous use of the IICS enables both the participating schools and Simoshi to recycle a percentage of the stream of carbon credit returns, to introduce new investments in those same schools within the education of climate change, hygiene/kitchen infrastructure and food nutrition sectors.