World Fuel from Waste Day – Alfastar Development Association in Kangemi

Ruth Githaiga of the Alfastar Development Association, will be running a briquette training and community building day tomorrow (May 28th) in Kangemi.

Along with representatives of the women’s groups trained in Westlands, Dagoretti and Kasarani during the lead-up to World Fuel from Waste Day. They will be doing demonstrations and training for the community. They will also be introducing a representative of a group from Western Kenya as a new facilitator and to show case their briquetting machine, which is another positive addition to the community briquetting technology landscape.

Representatives from the business community, the Hindi, Christian and Korean communities and the Nairobi International School, which promotes activities that build the capacities of vulnerable girls and women, will be joining the event.
Films, photographs and reports from the day will follow.

 

World Fuel from Waste Day 2015 – 28th May

The Fuel from Waste Network will be running a series of events across Nairobi up to the 28th May.

The Alfastar Development Association and Terra Nuova East Africa will be leading the events, supported by Valdese 8×1000, Casa no profit Barbusè and Middlesex University London.

More details to follow.

Fuel from Waste News – Kasarani Scouts – planting and briquetting work

Kasarani scout groups have been working on a planting and briquetting scheme that aims to plant 1.5 million trees and set up a system that supplies briquettes for their schools.

A pilot program will be run at the Baba Ndogo Secondary School.

The work has been supported by the Hut of Orphans of Kenya.

Video – The Scouts raise the Fuel from Waste banner: http://youtu.be/vndeuXZStzI

A One A We – Briquetting and Waste Management Event at Kiamaiko – report and videos

The event was at Kiamaiko on the 21.01.12 was a great success.

Have a look at some video clips from the event:

– Briquetting demonstration using Legacy Foundation manual press  http://youtu.be/Fzc1PfrlfiU

– Advice on marketing briquettes  http://youtu.be/4t0_V4m1HHo

– Demonstration of how to best use briquettes in cooking  http://youtu.be/5TMU1kQkpLA

Fuel from Waste Participant News – Dandora White Charcoal Youth Group – Feature in ‘The Standard’ Newspaper

The Standard Newspaper, in Kenya, recently ran a feature highlighting the fantastic work of the Dandora White Charcoal Youth Group. Peter Mwangi and Joseph Ndinya talk abou the genesis of the organisation, their environmental and social mission, their approach to entrepreneurship and their work with charities and NGOs (including Fuel from Waste, through their associates at Kenyatta University) in supporting and extending their mission.

“Eight years ago, Peter Mwangi and Joseph Ndinya stared at death. Mwangi was walking to a football pitch to join his friends in preparation for an upcoming football tournament when the police arrested him.

The policemen, he says, alleged that he was among the gang that terrorised motorists in the area — a claim he denied.

“They pointed a gun at me and I thought I was going to die. I was later released. They didn’t have evidence against me,” Mwangi recalls.

He says police have shot many young men in Dandora on similar allegations, some totally innocent.

The deadly incident completely changed the lives of the two from slum idlers to businessmen.

The duo are members of White Charcoal Youth Group located in Dandora. The youth group makes eco friendly charcoal from waste paper and saw dust.”

The full story can be read via the link above, or you can donwload a pdf version, here: Slum boys’ trade that is a ‘death’ armour – Dandora News

A One A We – Briquetting and Waste Management Event – 21.01.12 at Kiamaiko, Huruma, Nairobi

Meeting, demonstrations and training by A one a we self-help group 

Location: Kiamaiko sub location/ward, Huruma location, starehe constituency Nairobi.

Date: 21/01/2011 

Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm 

Venue

Huruma chapel is located in in Huruma next to the Muslims academy and kariobangi market.

Route numbers 14 from town, 28 through EastLeigh and 26 from Makadara area. Find a simpler connection. Please note that there are always avoidable jams along outer ring road. Start early.

The Event 

“A one A we self-help group is running a door to door campaign for fuel from waste. Its core business is production of briquettes. This involves a lot of waste collection and management.

A problem is that not many people are using briquettes and the demand is already high. Many groups in this location are involved in income generating activities but a very small percentage is using waste to produce fuel.

Production of briquettes also needs a lot of players and a well-coordinated materials collection plan.

A one A we will demonstrate that briquettes production is a viable income generating activity that helps keep the environment clean.

Kia Maiko is a slum area that hosts the largest goat meat market in Nairobi and produces tons of slaughter house waste. Firewood is the main fuel used for domestic and commercial cooking.

We are planning to produce briquettes and stoves to meet the demand in this location. We shall also exhibit a machine that produces 50 briquettes and hour and is operated by one person; we are in the process of making it better.

The event will also be a chance to introduce Fuel from Waste for groups in the neighborhood.

In parallel, we will be running  a Newma/Afenet meeting – our 3rd coordination meeting since the waste management at the Giraffe Center.

We will have representatives from the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife, Afenet members and all other associated groups.

We shall demonstrate the processes of briquettes production as a waste management initiative.

We shall also learn other waste management tips from all participants.

 ALL ARE WELCOME 

Sponsored By: A ONE A WE SELF-HELP GROUP  – Another way of saying togetherness

Thanks

Ruth Mukuhi”

Contact numbers:

Ruth (+254)0724 753 103   Steve (+254)0720 439 328   Chairperson (+254)0720 736 304

New Fuel from Waste – unConference 2011 photos up on Flickr and on redloopdesign.com

Lots of photos from the event now up on the Flickr link. Showing the lead-in, preparation, lots of the people and places in the FfW network, the exhibition of technology and produce at the event and the unConference generative co-design activity.

A new gallery and posting about the unConference, from the perspective of redLoop – the mdx design and innovation centre, one of the network partners, about their involvement in the Service Design of the event.

http://redloopdesign.com/?projects=fuel-from-waste-network-international-unconference

Lots of new reports from FfW Network members, active in Nairobi, wider Kenya and Sudan, on their way soon.

The ‘starting-point for a plan’ proposal from the storytelling and co-design session

The storytelling and co-design sessions were a great success. We managed to create, debate and agree a vision for the starting point for developing a plan for briquetting (and other Fuel from Waste activities).

The fantastic ideas, that we distilled this from, will be up on our Flickr site, presently.

We’ve been working on developing and refining this plan, and what it could be/mean in reality, with the FfW community. More to come soon. 🙂

Co-design, storytelling and exhibition demonstrations

We are making progress on the next stages of the plan.

We’ve established the network with all the participants, and more community groups are joining up.

In the meantime, here are some more of the pictures taken at the unConference:

The co-design participants, ready to create!

Lots of co-created ideas.

Voxpop storytelling from all particpants.

Community group documentary team.

Demonstrations to Saturday visitors.