It does not need much to make the world a better place
As you can see the last post of Kenya is already a long time ago. But I could manage to meet with some members of the group last week in Eldoret, Kenya. Our Christmas special allowed us to sponsor 44 stoves for widows and very poor families. But no one could have guessed which problems we are facing. From January till read more…
My final week has passed and I already travelled back to germany. But I want to show you the results of my work and share the adventures and good times I had in Uganda during my last days. I was also invited during my last week to spend a great day with the old Bishop Egidio, who is a great read more…
Another week has passed and we are getting closer to finish the whole kitchen. After telling my team we will have a big BBQ in the end of the week if they finish all work they started to work even harder. We started every day at 8am and worked until 7.30pm! The progress was visible every single day. One day read more…
Another week passed and we were hard working. It was worthwile because we were able to big progress. Last saturday we invited for a stove seminar. The plan was to construct 7 small family clay stoves with 18 people. The Ugandans are already aaware about the environmental issues of the traditional cooking place. So finally more than 30 people attended read more…
As I already mentioned in my last post from Tanzania, I was traveling back to Uganda to finalize the school kitchen and catering school project. Starting from Tanzania Mufindi Saturday morning, I arrived in Entebbe monday noon. One of the main reasons I went to Tanzania, was the long processing time for my special stainless steel saucepands I ordered from read more…
Another 2 weeks already passed, and I didn’t have any time to update all of you. Well, after my last report from Tanzania, we started working, improving, developing and we did big steps forward. But first in order. Before we started with an extensively training for the bricklayers, we had to solve and improve our plastering issue with the cement. read more…
As I mentioned in my last post from Uganda, I was traveling to Tanzania in order to bridge over the waiting time for the supply of some materials. My trip started last Friday from Kasese, Uganda. It was an 7h drive up to Entebbe. From there I check in to my flight at 2am in the morning before the filght read more…
The last week started with an unexpected party for my 30th birthday. Father Modest organized a small party with some priests living close by as well as some nuns. While I had the honor to help to slaughter a goat they prepared a big dinner for me. I insisted that at least a part of that goat will be roasted read more…
…is the Swahili expression for step by step. Kidogo kidogo we are doing efforts to to finish all the preparations and to start our project of a big school kitchen and a cooking school. I finally finished my drawings and calculations and could explain to my partners what I am planning and what we are going to construct. My team read more…
I can say I attained in the Kasese District in Uganda and settled in very well. Its a green paradise with plenty of great tasting fruits. After a very busy weekend especially for my project partner Father Modest (3 weddings on saturday and a 7h youth mass with the bishop attending in the church next door), we finally could start read more…