[Stoves] Gulu Week In Review from Ken Goyer, forwarded by Warren

[Richard Stanley]

Warren,

Having lived and worked all over Uganda including Gulu, I find it  
absured that they have to suffer at all. Think if it: All the waste  
veggie oil as fuel from the products of their fried food loving diet,  
viz.,  chips sellers, yama choma stalls on the steet , small and  
larger restaurents, hotels etc., etc... All that waste oil, so easily  
collected (job) filtered and settled out through scrap pant legs,  
sewn shut, dripping same into a plain 'ole oil drum or ?? where it  
settles out for a week or so,(another job)  then decanted off into  
your same gerry cans, nice and fluid as it is in that climate, then  
run into the diesel powered generator or pump engine with fuel line  
preheated by the engine's exhaust( another job) ... It is absolutely  
a no brainer tech: It is reliable, proven and directly avialable to  
them.

Really, one has a choice on how they wish to live ...

I will send you the farmers in Kansas who do this all the time and  
who drive their vehicles on same --all the time And they, like us  
here in Oregon, have this thing called winter to deal with...

It can be done. We have done it and We lived and worked right where  
you are now. You can not only do it too but you can show them how to  
do it as well...

Lets talk and get it sorted out and end the needless suffering now.

Richard Stanley
www.legacyfound.org


On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Warren Goyer wrote:

>
>
>  Gulu Week in Review May 27,2007
>
>
>
>      I was going to try and write weekly, but if I'm any less lucky  
> this
> will become titled "Gulu Month in Review". I have now been in Gulu  
> for two
> weeks with hardly any power or water. Imagine my city, Eugene,  
> Oregon, with
> no secure or reliable source of energy. Water is pumped with  
> electricity and
> with no electricity, soon, there is no water. (You have finished  
> drinking
> the contents of your water heater and you are heading for the  
> Amazon Canal
> to fill some cans with water which you might not even be able to  
> boil since
> you rely on electricity for cooking)(You have to carry the full can  
> back
> home on your head!). People seem to adapt to this situation better  
> than
> businesses. Imagine running a restaurant with no running water.
>
>      We have adapted by buying six extra jerry cans and carrying  
> them around
> in our van. One day we paid to fill them at a private well here in  
> town. You
> have to wait your turn in line. One day we filled them from a bore  
> hole
> outside of town. An old man hobbled over on crutches and demanded  
> that we
> pay 100 shillings (about a nickel) per jerry can for filling them. He
> claimed to be the well master. He said that he had a bank account  
> in town
> with 190,000 shillings ($100) saved to repair this well, but it has  
> not
> broken for two years. One day we filled our cans at Keith and  
> Lisa's water
> tap. Keith and Lisa are missionaries who have chosen to live and  
> work in the
> hinterlands of Gulu. Ronda, our volunteer, got to know them and  
> they have
> graciously allowed us to make our special stove bricks on their  
> back forty.
> They have put a water tap on the outside of their compound for the  
> public to
> use and now we are availing ourselves of it. Water is not only a  
> problem in
> town, it is a huge problem everywhere. Palenga Camp has a  
> sophisticated
> water system that will not work because there is no diesel fuel to  
> run the
> pumps. Pabo camp has several hundred people queued at every bore  
> hole and
> spigot waiting for water. I hope that soon we will be working on  
> the water
> problem too.
>
>      In the meantime, our first kiln full of bricks are not  
> wonderful but we
> are working to correct the problems. The first stoves will probably  
> go into
> a nearby camp called Mon Roc. We have, more or less casually, taken  
> twenty
> babies to Lacor Hospital and 17 were admitted, mostly cases of  
> malaria and
> diarrhea. Five of the babies came from (our first volunteer) Hugh's  
> old
> stomping grounds at Palenga Camp.
>
>      On my way to Gulu I went to Mundo Village (in Southern Uganda)  
> where
> the Tororo Rotary Club is completing the first Adopt-A-Village   
> project with
> two bore holes, fish pond, mosquito nets for everyone, and SixBrick  
> Rocket
> stoves for each family. It is exciting for me to go to a place I  
> have never
> been and see my Rocket Stove babies being  liked and used. Rosette  
> and Bam
> went to Mundo and made these stoves. Now Bam is helping us here in  
> Gulu and
> Rosette is starting on some more stove projects in the South.
>
>    "That's All Folks". Stay tuned for more exciting news from the
> hinterlands of Gulu.
>
> Best regards, from Ken
>
>
>
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