A BIG success | EnergySavingStoves
I'm happy that I can announce today the probably biggest success of my work of the last years, fighting the use of traditional cooking stoves. The last months I went through an intensive selection and application process to receive a grant from th...
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WHO-Studie: Neun von zehn Menschen atmen verschmutzte Luft - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Gesundheit
http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/who-studie-neun-von-zehn-menschen-atmen-verschmutzte-luft-a-1205669.html
Help for two ugandan schools | EnergySavingStoves
Last week we were able to finalize the cooperation project with Welthungerhilfe Uganda. Two schools were equipped with brand new energy saving clay stoves. Lotome boys school with 700 pupils and Musas primary school with 450 students were handover...
Collaboration with the Welthungerhilfe 2nd | EnergySavingStoves
After another week in Moroto, training the engineers of Welthungerhilfe, one can see the stoves. After many ups and downs, delays of materials and many other issues, we could successfully close that week with starting to build the chimneys. The co...
Collaboration with the Welthungerhilfe | EnergySavingStoves
A collaboration with the NGO Welthungerhilfe in one of the poorest areas of Uganda, Karamoja, Northeast close to the border to Kenya. http://energysavingstoves.org/2018/03/collaboration-with-the-welthungerhilfe/
Tamugh – back to simplicity | EnergySavingStoves
Again no report from my side since month. But towards the end of the year I can report to you about my last commitment in the Western Region of Kenya. More precisley Westpokot on the western border from Kenya towards Uganda. Despite all political ...
Exceeded expectations
The expectations were even exceeded by far. Last monday the new kitchen for the holy dove vocational school could be put into operation. And the performance of the oven has also convinced the last critics and skeptics. Especially the chefs were mo...
1076 – One thousand seventy six
1076 stoves! One thousand seventy six stoves , built in only 6 month. Since my last visit in the highlands of south Tanzania, Julio and his team did an awesome cooperation on the tea plantations of Unilever, where they are growing the world famous...
Better late than never
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 n...
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Today an exciting message reached me. My good friend and fellow Julio Myamba, whom I trained for several years on stove constructions, reported me that they finished stove not meet 1076!!!!!! In just 6 months he and his team did an amazing job on ...
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I just received some pictures of the finalized kitchen of my last project in Uganda. I'm proud to see that wonderful result and even happier to travel to Uganda next week for the opening ceremony and some more projects. Rwenzori e.V.
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Last but not least
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 da...
In der Giftküche
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/malawi-in-der-giftkueche-1.3532372 A very good article today in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" about traditional cooking in Malawi. Some mentioned facts: - one hour in the smoke is similar to 400 cigarettes - every ...
On the finishing line
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 unt...
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Today big roofing party for the EnergySaving Kitchen and Cooking vocational school
So much progress in such a short time
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...
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Today big seminar day. Around 35 people attend. We build 7 stovesthe same time!!
When the cat is away, the mice will play
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 rea...
The stone was set rolling
Already another 2 weeks 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 extens...
Big surprise
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 chec...
Unexpectedly often comes
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....
Kidogo Kidogo…
...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 ex...
Time is relative…
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 yo...
Uganda the first…
After a long flight through Brüssel, I arrived safely in Entebbe. Spending one night there, I had another day ride to the Rwenzori region. In Fort Portal I was picked up by Pater Modest, with whom I am working with the next weeks. He is a very in...
New Country new chance
Today I went on the way to a new project it a country I haven't been yet. Uganda. My flight will leave tomorrow from Munich to Kampala where Pastor Modesto will pick me up. I am invited to that region by an german/austrian association called "Rwen...
Final chapter Haiti
Finally I find time to update all of you about the status of the incinerator stove in Port-Au-prince. After finalizing all constructions and drying the whole thing, it only needed to be burned. I bought plenty of wood for that and we were able to ...
Christmas special for Kenya
We also received some great news from Kenya these days. During the christmas time, we had a special campaign to support our partner organization "EnergySavingStoveGroup Kenya" from Kabarnet, Baringo county. Donators were able to support a poor fam...
Charcoal Stove
Before christmas last year, I have been for a week in Arusha at the organisation "Help for the massai". They asked me to help them to find a solution, to lower their costs for cooking. As I figured out in Haiti some month before, the clay stove I ...
Hard piece of work
After 4 days of controlling the welder, my scrapper was ready. I had to run up and down the hill 3 times per day, from the construction side to the welders workshop, to see if everything is going right. I always had some tears in the eyes, because...
Time is running
Two weeks are already over. Two weeks we were able to finalize a lot, but there are still some main parts missing. In Haiti it is not really that easy to find the required materials. If you find them the quality is often very low. The last week i ...
First week
After the first week we were able to do most of the masoning works on our way to finalize the construction of the incinerator cooker. To place a final layer of a fire- and heat proof cement on top of the stove, some fires clay bricks were necessar...
Reunion in Carrefous Feuilles
Three month after leaving Haiti, I am finally back to Port-au-Prince, Carrefour Feuilles. This area was one of the places which were mostly destroyed by the earthquake in 2010. Officially it is a so called red zone, which means most NGOs are only ...
Ready for take-off
After I had a really complicated travel to Paris, I am finally sitting in my plane to Port au prince, ready to leave. Let's hope that the airline is not like the German train DB, which had a delay of 4h, on a 5h trip! Will report after landing... ...
Haiti the 2nd
First of all, I wish everybody a Happy New Year. A little bit late, but better late then never. I also want to welcome you to our new website EnergySavingStoves.org After a couple of weeks of vacations and recovery, I started my next trip back to ...
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Vielen Dank für alle Weihnachtsaktions-Spender!!! Wir freuen uns über so viel Großzügigkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft! Es sind Spenden für mehr als 40 Öfen für die ärmsten Regionen, Familien und Witwen in Kenia eingegangen. Die meisten Besitzu...
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Heute habe ich, nach knapp 2 Monaten, Ostafrika wieder verlassen. In Kenia sind mittlerweile 8 weitere Öfen entstanden. 10 weitere sollen bis Mitte Januar folgen. Danach geht die Schulzeit wieder los, und einige der Schulen haben schon Bestellung...
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Hab schon lange nichts mehr gepostet. Hier also ein kleines Update. Habe die letzten Tage in Kitandilio, der kleinen Dorfgemeinde in der das ganze Projekt hier seinen Anfang fand. Es ist der einzige Ort in ganz Tansania, wo mich die Menschen nicht...
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Isn't it a pretty one? Everybody is excited, that this stove is keeping what I promised!!
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Yesterday I visited a place were I hold a training last year. The good news is, they constructed a second nice stove...the bad news is, nobody finished both of them. That means, the stoves are ready, but the chimney has to be constructed over the ...
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Luckily we managed to finish both stoves yesterday. Today the long expected rain arrived, and we could use to train the masons and the local women group
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Day 3 and two stoves are ready!!! The local women group is so excited about that stoves that they came today to ask me if I can train them as well....Train a man and you train one person, train a woman and you train a whole generation
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Tag2: Der erste Ofen ist fast fertig. Im Moment verputzen wir ihn noch. Danach wird der neue Kamin an den alten, modifizierten Kamin angeschlossen. Zeitgleich bauen wir den zweiten Ofen in einem anderen Haus. Auf dem Bild könnt ihr sehen, wie vie...
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Die letzte Woche habe ich in Arusha bei Hilfe für die Massai e.V. verbracht, um dort einen speziellen Holzkohleofen zu entwerfen. Momentan wird er vom Metaller vor Ort gefertigt und wir warten noch auf die Testphase und erste Ergebnisse. Ich muss...
Timeline Photos
****BITTE TEILEN**** Juhuu! In einem Monat ist Weihnachten! Und auch wir haben uns für diese schöne Zeit etwas ganz Besonderes überlegt: Ihr könnt einer Familie in Kenia ein einzigartiges Weihnachtsgeschenk machen und einen individuellen Ofen ...
Kabarnet Training weeks
Impressions from my 2nd trip to Kabarnet, to train the EnergySavingStoveGroup CBO for a new institutional stove technology as well as team and managment training
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The stove is burnt, the final plastering is done, it is ready to use...! We were just running a test and heated up 10l of water, with less than 1.5kg of wood. I took only 20min till boiling 😱 and the stove was cold before...
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Bahnhof-Apotheke Kempten, vielen Dank für eure großzügige Spende. Dadurch konnte die EnergySavingStoveGroup (CBO) in Kabarnet gegründet werden, und u.a eine neue Ofenbautechnologie für Schulen und Institute implementiert werden. LG aus Kabarnet
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Teambuilding Seminar Day! Lets form that people to a well working team...
Verfehltes Uno-Ziel: Fast sechs Millionen Kinder sterben vor ihrem fünften Geburtstag - SPIEGEL ONLINE
http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/schwangerschaft/kindersterblichkeit-60-prozent-entfallen-auf-nur-zehn-laendern-a-1120814.html "Fünf der am schwersten betroffenen Länder liegen der Untersuchung zufolge in Afrika: In Angola, der Demokratischen R...
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I was visiting one of the stoves I constructed last year. It looks quite good. There are some small issues with the way they use it, but I'm still happy about that it is fully functional and in daily use!
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Construction seminar day...replacing the old stove with my new technology!
As always, see English translation below... Nach einer sehr anstrengenden Woche komme ich endlich dazu, einen Post zu schreiben und euch auf dem Laufenden zu halten. Nachdem ich vor einer Woche Haiti verlassen hatte, habe ich mich auf den langen ...
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Related to the incinerator project in Haiti....Great move from adidas and Bayern München. They are playing with shirts made from recycled plastic trash, collected on the maledives. Real Madrid will follow! Save the ocean...! Bayern spielt in Tri...
Project Haiti Incinerator temporary postponed
5 Wochen sind um, 5 Wochen voller neuer Eindrücke und Erfahrungen. 5 manchmal schwierige aber interessante und lehrreiche Woche. Die letzten 14 Tage war ich sehr damit beschäftigt, den Müllverbrennungsofen fertig zu stellen. Leider ist mir dies...
Dieses Video sollte erklären warum ich diesen Müllverbrennungsofen baue....Müllentsorgung in Haiti; alles was der Regen nicht ins Meer spült, wird am Straßenrand verbrannt! This Videos should explain, why I am constructing this incinerator.....