We are now working with the General Hospital’s staff every day to get the premises or briquette atelier (as they call it) ready. It is encouraging to feel everyone’s enthusiasm and big thanks to the hospital’s director who has been facilitating a lot of our work. Just some images of its progress below:
A 40 feet container was given to keep our stuff safe…..
Recycling USAID paper flour bags for binding briquettes and its plastic inside
for the compost
[...] to use in the General Hospital. Therefore we will be storing out machines and material in the first one doneated to us, and this new one will be used to store the dry fuel [...]
By: A New Container! « Project Kadutu Weblog on July 21, 2008
at 7:00 am
[...] An update from the General Hospital in Bukavu and their fuel briquette production. Nurses and general staff are on strike since last [...]
By: Workers Strike « Project Kadutu Weblog on September 19, 2008
at 7:35 pm
[...] a shortage of staff in the General Hospital in Bukavu (due to personnel’s strike), fuel briquette production managed to continue, with a [...]
By: Strike Continues « Project Kadutu Weblog on September 23, 2008
at 5:46 pm
[...] The team from the General Hospital is getting creative with their production of paper and sawdust fuel briquettes. It first came with [...]
By: Double Briquettes « Project Kadutu Weblog on October 28, 2008
at 11:23 pm
[...] those who have not been following this blog, I have installed one press machine in the General Hospital in Bukavu, almost 8 months ago. The production of sawdust and paper fuel briquettes has been [...]
By: Behaviour Change « Project Kadutu Weblog on October 31, 2008
at 8:10 pm
[...] since last Thursday, and I will be staying until the end of November. Yesterday I visited the General Hospital, and had a very nice welcoming from all the staff and the children in the Malnourished [...]
By: Back in the DRC « Project Kadutu Weblog on November 15, 2008
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[...] Today we have installed a drying frame in the General Hospital, to get the fuel briquettes dry faster. We think that by suspending them far from the floor, they [...]
By: Drying Frame « Project Kadutu Weblog on November 20, 2008
at 7:43 pm
[...] to the Market Today it is the first time we have decided to go out of the General Hospital premises to start promoting the fuel briquettes. As from today, one press staff will be going to [...]
By: Going to the Market « Project Kadutu Weblog on December 4, 2008
at 6:57 am
[...] to give it a try to this new stove. Rok is currently writing his thesis on this subject. In the General Hospital in Bukavu, the team decided to build one of these stoves as a [...]
By: Rok Oblak’s Stove « Project Kadutu Weblog on December 10, 2008
at 3:43 pm
[...] I will be updating this blog with the latest progress on the machines already installed in the General Hospital, IFRADE and [...]
By: New Year’s Plans 2009 « Project Kadutu Weblog on January 25, 2009
at 8:53 am
[...] Last weekend I was visiting Sister Elena Albarracin and her Malnutrition Center in the General Hospital in Bukavu. They are fearlessly pressing fuel briquettes on a daily basis, to be consumed in the [...]
By: New Stove Design in Bukavu « Project Kadutu Weblog on March 11, 2009
at 8:53 am
[...] groups assisted to our 2 day training course last weekend, which was held at the General Hospital in Bukavu. They came from various villages in far territories, such as Uvira and [...]
By: 5 New Press Machines Donated « Project Kadutu Weblog on April 2, 2009
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