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a developing-world oven
Gudday all,
I'm a complete fresher to all of this, so excuse my ignorance on the topic and to put it bluntly I need advice
A basic background of what i'm doing:
I'm going to Papua New Guinea in late March (2008) as part of a mission team to increase the standards of living in the community.
As part of this I'm aiming to introduce brick-ovens that will ultimately enable the community to use less firewood as fuel.
These ovens have many benefits including a reduced impact on their environment (slow combustion-->less firewood), reduced workload (to focus efforts on more important tasks other than collecting firewood) and ofcourse safety for younger people.
I'll be building the ovens from scratch... and as you can imagine I'll be using unconventional methods to complete the project.
Here's a couple of problems tasks that i need to solve right away...
*All of the designs I have seen on numerous websites are very intricate and look amazing (compliments all round), however these are beyond my needs.
The ovens I have in mind will be simple and easy to build. (That is it will require little training to build because when I leave, the people will continue to build ovens in their village and surrounding community).
*The resources at hand are minimal. Their current living standards are more closely described at near stone-age so access to bricks and mortar are a little out of the question (for now at least).
So I aim to make the bricks from clay from the earth and the mortar will have to come from the same place.
Does anyone have any experience in this?
I'm searching for advice here, so if anyone in this community can help I would greatly appreciate it.
If you have any other comments, queries, notes, etc I would love to hear from you.
I don't expect this to be easy, but I know this isn't impossible.
Cheers guys, thanks for your time
I'm a complete fresher to all of this, so excuse my ignorance on the topic and to put it bluntly I need advice
A basic background of what i'm doing:
I'm going to Papua New Guinea in late March (2008) as part of a mission team to increase the standards of living in the community.
As part of this I'm aiming to introduce brick-ovens that will ultimately enable the community to use less firewood as fuel.
These ovens have many benefits including a reduced impact on their environment (slow combustion-->less firewood), reduced workload (to focus efforts on more important tasks other than collecting firewood) and ofcourse safety for younger people.
I'll be building the ovens from scratch... and as you can imagine I'll be using unconventional methods to complete the project.
Here's a couple of problems tasks that i need to solve right away...
*All of the designs I have seen on numerous websites are very intricate and look amazing (compliments all round), however these are beyond my needs.
The ovens I have in mind will be simple and easy to build. (That is it will require little training to build because when I leave, the people will continue to build ovens in their village and surrounding community).
*The resources at hand are minimal. Their current living standards are more closely described at near stone-age so access to bricks and mortar are a little out of the question (for now at least).
So I aim to make the bricks from clay from the earth and the mortar will have to come from the same place.
Does anyone have any experience in this?
I'm searching for advice here, so if anyone in this community can help I would greatly appreciate it.
If you have any other comments, queries, notes, etc I would love to hear from you.
I don't expect this to be easy, but I know this isn't impossible.
Cheers guys, thanks for your time
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