[Stoves] FW: Ken Goyer returns to Africa

[Richard Stanley]

Dear Warren, other fellow listers, and all of our friends and  
colleagues ccy'd above,

We just returned from Uganda ( and Tanzania) recently on an intensive  
three week training assignment in both places. Perhaps you can  
connect with the Project in Mbale as it is not too far (east/ south  
east) from Gulu.

The group we worked with in Mbale Uganda was the  Uganda Gender  
Rights Foundation It was locally coordinated by the Eco Ventures  
organisation which was funded in turn by the McKnight foundation. Our  
lead trainer is our colleague Gilbert Okure, based in Kampala. Those  
interested can contact us or either of the mentioned parties for  
further information.

For those interested in their own Briquette projects in Uganda, we  
look fwd to the UGRFs provision  of training services there. The  
press (of the hand operated/ locally made batch-fed compound lever  
"mini Bryant" variety) was made in Mbale. Our more recent innovation  
for preparing materials, the Thresher Masher Chopper device was built  
in Kampala by JBT engineering. The lead trainers for that project was  
the long known and active husband and wife team,  Francis and Mary  
Kavita of Kenya.

As similar training was also completed in the district of Lushoto (up  
in the Usambaras of the as yet, fantastic and largely tourist- 
undiscovered) Tanzania. The report has just been submitted and needs  
to be reviewed and edited by the concerned organisations there before  
we could freely pass out similar contact information for your direct  
communication, if desired. That report should be processed within the  
coming three weeks.

Suffice it to say, that the training assignment was very fruitful  
thanks to our Ugandan and Kenyan and Tanzanian partners and lead  
trainers who were engaged for this project. We have made lots of new  
and likely permanent friends in the process and wish them all the  
success in now expanding the technology in these nations and remain  
available to both backstop and learn from them, as they gain  
experience in local adaptation of it.

Sisi na shikuru sana, kwa wote,

Richard & Joyce Stanley
www.legacyfound.org


On Apr 30, 2007, at 09:17, Warren Goyer wrote:

>
>
> Dear friends,
>
>        I am pleased to say that I have regained my health and I am  
> ready to
> return to Uganda. (Ticket for May 4th.) Also, Ben from Florida will be
> joining me in Gulu shortly after I arrive to help us build stoves  
> and do
> other tasks.
>
>      I am very happy to report that Martin is recovering very well  
> from his
> accident and I understand that Moses is doing well too.
>
>      The O.K. news is that our dear friend and compatriot, founder  
> of the
> Three Way Stove Project, Rotarian Wilfred Pimentel has had a small  
> heart
> attack after returning from his latest trip to Rwanda. I visited  
> with him
> last week at his home in Fresno and he is recovering quickly,  
> although his
> wife Marie would rather he not travel too much in the future.
>
>        Our first four volunteers have returned safely from Uganda.  
> Hugh and
> Ronda encountered the usual frustrations of a new project but even  
> so they
> managed to do good work. Pete went for a short time to do  
> administrative
> work (We are now officially incorporated in Uganda thanks to the  
> struggles
> of all of the volunteers). Damon's report on his BIG stove  
> experiment can be
> seen at
>
> http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/ogleuganda07 . Thanks  to everyone  
> for
> their hard work.
>
>   We have begun to make SixBricks Rocket stoves in IDP camps in  
> Gulu as well
> as stoves for the Rotary Adopt-A-Village program in  South Uganda.  
> Each
> family in the first village (of Mundo) now has a stove.
>
>        Dan Wolf, founder of the International Lifeline Fund,  
> reports that
> Mathew has now made 25,000 stoves in IDP camps in Lira.  VJ has now
> completed 5,000 stoves in El Fasher, Darfur He has built stoves for  
> every
> family in one IDP camp and is starting in three more camps.   
> Meanwhile, Dan
> is plowing new ground in South Darfur, and in Ethiopia.
>
>         AidAfrica has purchased a Toyota van, and soon we will have  
> another
> Toyota van and Mazda truck arriving from Japan to help us with our  
> projects
> in Gulu. The truck will be used for the stove project and the vans  
> will be
> used to provide transportation for volunteers and to transport  
> babies and
> other ill people from the camps to receive medical attention.
>
>
>
> 1000 children under five years old die every week in Northern  
> Uganda, mostly
> from MAD (malaria, anemia, diarrhea).
>
>
>
>  We hope to alleviate some of this suffering.
>
>         Thanks to everyone who has made our work possible. It looks  
> to be
> another exciting year. Thanks to my brother Warren for forwarding  
> my emails.
> While this email appears to come from Warren, if you wish, you can
> correspond directly with me at kennethgoyer at yahoo.com
>
>      I hope to see some of you in Uganda.
>
>          Best wishes,  Ken
>
>
>
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