We’re working hard to complete the few remaining critical tasks so we can launch our pilot in Kibera, but in the meantime I thought I’d share a fun story. A couple of weeks ago the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, in conjunction with UNICEF, KWAHO, and several other sponsors including PATH, hosted a public [...]
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Household Water Treatment Fair
Posted in Kenyan Culture, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, Kenya, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, water purification and storage on March 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Vote for Village Volunteers!
Posted in Personal Travel Stories, tagged Village Volunteers on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a fast and simple way for you to help make a difference to the fantastic programs around the world that Village Volunteers supports. Facebook and Chase are having a competition and will award $20,000 to the 200 charities that get the most votes. We’re currently in the top 200, but need your help to [...]
3,000 view celebration
Posted in Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, clean water, Travel on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today CleanWaterForAll.net passed the 3,000 view mark! This achievement was greatly expedited by WordPress promoting my blog on their “Freshly Pressed” page (which was awesome). I’m delighted that so many people are interested in learning more about my work and the struggles and culture of Africa. If more people took an interest like you, many [...]
Village Volunteers
Posted in Ceramic Water Filters, Kibera Water Kiosk Project, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, Kenya, Travel, Village Volunteers on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who have ever thought about volunteering abroad, know someone who wants to volunteer abroad, or simply want to support an organization doing great work abroad, I thought I’d tell you a bit more about Village Volunteers. Village Volunteers, the organization that I went through for this Kenya trip, is a Seattle-based [...]
Egypt and Turkey pictures
Posted in Personal Travel Stories, tagged Travel on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hello from Istanbul. I’ve been taking a short break from looking at water purification strategies and have instead gone to look at the pyramids of Egypt and the amazing city of Istanbul. I thought I’d just post a few of my favorite pictures. Egypt was pretty enjoyable overall. The people were generally very friendly and [...]
Thank you for your support
Posted in Ceramic Water Filters, Kibera Water Kiosk Project, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, clean water, Kenya, Kibera, water filters, water purification and storage on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’d like to take a minute and thank everyone who donated to these fantastic water projects in Kenya. I have many friends back home who contributed money. Outdoor Research contributed a number of weatherproof jackets, shirts, pants, and hats, which I gave out at various slums and schools throughout Kenya. I have also received a [...]
Disaster averted
Posted in Kenyan Culture, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, Kenya, Travel on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As my time in Nairobi comes to a close, I’d like to remind everyone who’s traveling abroad (and at major cities at home) to always be careful. In three days I had two close calls here in Nairobi. First, a few days ago, someone tried to steal my watch while I was in a car. [...]
Another look at Maasai culture
Posted in Kenyan Culture, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, Kenya, Travel on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In yesterday’s post I discussed how Emmanuel, a member of the Maasai tribe, received 24 cows at two Maasai rituals. He’s now using some of those cows to buy land, but he told me that he first used some of those cows to finish paying for high school. Without them, he said he never would [...]
No tears? Get a cow.
Posted in Kenyan Culture, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, Kenya, Maasai, Masai, Travel on May 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago I was lucky enough to stay in the home of one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. Emmanuel is part of the Maasai tribe in Kenya. After becoming the first person in his village to attend university, he returned home and built a school so more Maasai can become [...]
Safari pics and water kiosk update
Posted in Kibera Water Kiosk Project, Personal Travel Stories, tagged Africa, clean water, Kenya, Kibera, market research, safari pictures, Travel, water purification and storage on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As promised, here are some pictures of the safari in Maasai Mara. I don’t want to clutter the Clean Water For All Flickr album with safari pictures, so I created a new album specifically for these. I’ll add more over the weekend. Some of my favorites are below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/33468302@N02/sets/72157624009846655 Back to why I’m actually here, [...]
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