Smoke & Smiles

'Nimepotea' as they say here - it means I've been 'lost' as in I haven't ben seen, not as in I don't know which direction I'm going ;-). Suffice it to say that the Teachers Without Borders workshops have gone very well!! I've kept them (and myself!) very busy, holding workshops with secondary teachers & then visiting various schools in the district to followup. They're now on safari for a bit - giving me a chance to breathe a bit, remember that I do live here, and catch up on other projects.

And so on to today! I went to Maai Mahiu Secondary for the closing ceremony, and managed to arranged some of the students into the shape of 150 = as in C150K, our Canada/Kenya celebration this year.

We're testing a fuel-efficient stove, manufactured in Nairobi, to calculate exactly how much less fuel is used by the stove. From that we can figure out how much carbon is offset, and then feel justified to continue pursuing a formal carbon offsets arrangement in collaboration with a local carbon offset expert.

Photos - of the fuel efficient stove; of Rocky (environmental coordinator) chopping wood to uniform sizes; of Baba Shiro and Rocky weighing the still-burning wood to determine how much was consumed;

The young girl in one of these photos - Shiro - was great fun, and ended up playing a good oldfashioned game of 'pass' in the moments when we got bored of (literally) watching the pot boiling!