Day 14 – Meet with Elisabeth at Green dev. and Paul at NCA

After a nice breakfast including pourage (I think it was), I went for a meeting with Elisabeth at Green Development.

A fantastic story of encouragement and willingness to invest time and money for a good cause. We had a lot to talk about and share and 1 1/2 hour went like a wind. I certainly learned a lot!

Keywords:

• In the poorest areas of Nairobi (and elsewhere close to the big cities), where there is no access to firewood, buying charcoal for the prep. of food swallows up to 50% of the total income
• Charcoal is in mot cases NOT produced sustainably (deforestation)
• More than 4million people (women) die as a direct cause of inhaling smoke during Cooking EVERY year
• Biowaste (like rotten fruit – there is a lot, as no fridges – and peelings) could ‘easily’ be made into bioethanol (or even simpler; biogas)
• Collecting biowaste to fermentation and destillation plants could be a source of income for quite many
• Bioethanol/gas stoves  could easily replace charcoal/firewood stoves

I forgot to take a picture of our meet, but on my way I got carried away as a result of my previous electrical installation inpection experience:

I also had the pleasure of meeting Paul Mbole, program manager, at NCA Kenya, before heading for Kisumu. Many interesting projects related to gender and environmental justice, renewable energy systems being part of the solutions, in the pipeline. See: http://www.kirkensnodhjelp.no/en/What-we-do/Where-we-work/Eastern-Africa/kenya/

Again I forgot to take a picture, but I took some of the taxi driver, the bus and some buildings – he-he: