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 the nearer market with stoves and briquettes, setting up their own stall and hopefully encouraging passers by to purchase.
Our first attempt proved to be promising and the way to go! After 20 minutes of demonstration and a explanations to a crowded audience, we made out first sale of a stove and 12 fuel briquettes.
Andrew from California is doing an internship in the Hospital
Way to go Andrew from California and Gertrude! Hopefully these briquettes will take off and become a viable and sustainable means of cooking and heating. We can only hope and in this way we are doing what we can to save the forests for the wonderful creatures that call it home.
By: Lisa, California on December 4, 2008
at 11:58 pm
I would like to join your team as environmental programms developer in the South-Kivu. For a wider dissemination of this technology which lools to be easy and cheap to promote.
Our students can gain from it and create in future their own jobs. An dthe tropical forest will be protected.
I wnat to know where exactly you will be coming back to Bukavu.
By: Innocent Balagizi Karhagomba on December 11, 2008
at 8:44 am