This trip was to meet with SustainTech, who we're looking to partner under the Entrepreneur Fund. Sustain Tech is a social enterprise, also doing some great work at the ground level.
They make environment friendly, fuel efficient cook stoves. These small road side dhabhas that we visited used to cook on gas earlier, but have now shifted to these stoves, and apparently, it saves them close to 10 k a month, plus its clean and smokeless.
That's Chand Pasha, the first dhabha who was willing to try it ( not to miss his talking on the phone as he makes the parathas).
That's the stove, with a geometrically designed chamber, to enable high quality insulation and controlled combustion.
That's Syed Walliuddin another customer (introduced by Chand Pasha) who insisted on giving us free chai, and Narsimha, the field officer and our host for the morning
It was so interesting, as we're trying to get our basic understanding of how they work and we ask...'din mein kitne log aate honge aap ke paas' ( how many people come eachday) and he says ' pataa nahi madam, kaise ghin sakte hain'............. 'phir bhi, madam, woh kais question hai.... kaise pata hoga' ( don't know madam, how would we know......and anyways, what kind of a question is that, how's it even possible to know?) and his tone sounded so like...what a dumb question to ask.......that it had us in splits.
We had lovely fluffy, flaky parathas and omelette at Chand Pashas for lunch. I was so focused on the parathas, I did a bad job on Jayashree, sorry J.
This was one of the most warm and pretty welcomes we had, a lovely rose as we got off the car.
Thanks Narsimha and Reddy, truly appreciated, and definitely wanting to take the partnership to the next level.
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