DM-market "Projektfördertag" (project supporting day) had great success!
Action day provides cash about 1800,- Euro!
The project team of the Ethopia Solar Project would like to thank very much the DM-Market, for the great support on a campaign day on February 29th, 2012.
For the benefit of the project were given all cash, which was earned in one hour on the counter. A total of 1.800,00 Euro have been transferred on the account of the Ethopia project team.
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The symbolic cheque handover ceremony was hold in the Waldorfschool Wendelstein on March 7th by shop manager Mrs. Anja Themel in connection with a presentation of the Ethopia project by Wolfgang Debus. Now, on the account of the project team there are round about 8.000,00 Euro. For the photovoltaic system in Chencha there will be needed another 12.000,00 Euro.
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Public presentation about Ethiopia project
Project report on Wednesday, 07 March 2012
As part of the pedagogical lecture series "Education of Man" of the Waldorf School Wendelstein project supervisor and senior teacher Wolfgang Debus will report on the status and pedagogical objectives of the Ethiopia project. On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, a lecture with photographs will take place in the ballroom of the school from 20:00.
Admission is free.
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On this evening, the result of the very successful promotion on February 29, 2012 in the DM market in Nuremberg-Langwasser will take place with a symbolic check handover by the branch management of the DM market.
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DM market in the Frankencenter supports Ethiopia Project
Promotion and project status on Wednesday, 02/29/2012
Leap days are special days in the calendar. So the 02/29/2012 Not only is such a leap, but also a special day for our project in Ethiopia.
On this day, from 13:00 to 14:00, Milo Drozynski, 9th grade student of the Wendelstein Waldorf School and member of the Ethiopia project group, will spend one hour at the DM market in the Frankencenter, Glogauer Strasse in Nuremberg-Langwasser serving the market. Any revenue that goes over the counter at this hour will fully benefit our project. In addition, from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm, we will have an information booth about our Ethiopia solar project in the market, where you can buy Ecopia products from Ethiopia.
We look forward to see you and to an interesting day of action!
WD
Ethiopia project continues!
Large project goals for 2012
In 2012 our main work will be to create a financing concept and an organisation and installation plan for the solar power plant in Chencha.
The project continues but there will be a long way until we will achieve our target. In the next weeks and months following duties have to be fulfilled.
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- Generate reports about the project (presentation for the pupils from grade 7 to 12 at December, 19th, 2011, presentation of the project work for the parents and the public (March 7th,2012))
- Write newspaper articles and report our successful trip to Chencha
- Information stand on the day of the open door in the Waldorf school Wendelstein on 28.01.2012
- Aquirierung of further sponsors and donations to the financing of the solar plant
- Promotion in the DM-Shop in “Frankencentrum” (Nuremberg-Langwasser) at February, 29th, 2012 with information desk and sale of Ecopia products and a special offer: one of our group members will work for one hour on the counter and will earn all takings of this time for our Chencha project.
- Finding a new team for the next trip to Chencha in October/November 2012
- Technical engineering of the solar power plant for Chencha
- Planning and preparation of the next project trip in 2012
So there are many things to do! For concrete support, assistance and advise regarding our project we would be very grateful.
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Successful start of the project 2011 in Chencha!
After 2 weeks, many goals for project launch were achieved
Sunday, 06.11.2011:
After 2 weeks of travel and many miles through Ethiopia to Chencha ,we are back well in Germany!
Since the last report from 30.10. many things have changed.
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Sunday the 30.10. was a day off we used near Arba Minch in the National Park for a trip to the crocodiles, ospreys, pelicans and hippopotamuses. On Monday, the 31.10. the work in Chencha continues unabated.
In the last 3 days that we spent in this mountain village, a lot of work was completed and some future tasks, which will be further completed by the locals, were triggered.
Thanks to our good tools and the active help of some inhabitants of Chencha, we were able to finish the toilet-compost-water-heating-shower system from our side.
The shower will now provide warm water, as long as there is enough water in the associated tanks. We have connected the tanks with a communicating tube to double the amount of water. But if the water supply is used up, wather still has to be laboriously carried up from the 80m remote river.
Our task for 2012 will therefore also be to install a hydraulic ram in the stream 80 meters away, which will pump sufficient liquid to the grounds of Ecopia for the water supply of the toilet and shower.
In addition, about 350 trees were planted on the property, a greenhouse was put into operation, a drying plant for fruit was built and of course the building itself was started with the masonry.
In 2012, we will have the necessary energy supply for this soon completed house because of a photovoltaic system, which will be built by our school on the site in Chencha. Because without power supply, the refining of the harvested products cannot be carried out.
For the purchase of the solar system we still need numerous supporters and sponsors who will help us with the acquisition and transport of this system.
After successfully connecting the sustainable energy supply for the main house, a farmer in Chencha, who refines and conserves his fruits and harvested products there, can be paid 2 Birr more per jar of jam produced.
With 100 glasses of daily production, a farmer could receive an additional income of 200 birr only through the existing solar system. 200 birr (equivalent to 8 euros) is equivalent to the average monthly income of an Ethiopian!
Since Chencha already has 250 farmers interested in using the Ecopia facility to make jam, it would have a significant boost on the self-procured and Ecopia-supported income of those, living by agriculture!
We will continue to pursue this task with our full potential, as we have just realized with our opening trip that this is a goal worth all efforts.
See you again in Ethiopia in the fall of 2012!
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One week Ethiopia
Working in Chencha for Ecopia proceeds
Sunday, 30.10.2011:
Now we are a week on the road and in spite of the bad conditions, we began to build the house in the Ethiopian highlands.
The trip to Chencha proved to be less smooth because one of our jeeps broke down, therefore it took one day more to drive the 600 km way from addis because of the repairs. We had to stay in a hotel in Sodo, which has cost 100 Birr per Room(converted 4 euros) which is very cheap.
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In Chencha we could start working only one day later. The house for the work of Ecopia already has a foundation. Since we had arrived here the building workers had begun to work.
Our task in this first year in which we initiate the solar project in Chencha on the 4ha site are: Toilets and showers.
For ourselves, we have once made very simple facilities only for the duration of our stay. For Ecopia we are going to build such facilities which have to be sustainable. These are not just ordinary showers, but the initiated facilities have also to correspond to the environmental criticism. For this we use local materials and a combined supply system: water from the river is brought in water tanks, which are placed at a sufficient height. The water will be passed through a 75m long tube which is installed in a compost of plant and cow dung, so that the water is heated by the local warmth so there is warm water available. The toilets are located on a 1.30 Meters deep hole. Above the hole there is a moveable plate. If the hole is filled, after some time, the concrete slab and portable hut is placed on an adjacent hole. The resultant in the first pit compost is then used for the compost facilities for heating up water.
For the coming year, we had the idea to pump the water to the facilities by means of a sufficiently strong hydraulic pump which would be installed in a river nearby. This is in addition to the solar system, a new goal of our relief work for Ecopia.
Difficulties are caused by the lack of tools here and sometimes by slowly-finded materials. So we are glad that Rolf Terjung has brought good tools such as screwdrivers, spirit levels and gloves to Ethiopia.
Apart from all, it is just excellent here! We are sleeping in our own tents, are cooked by volunteers from Ecopia and even Mitslal herself and the group has much fun working here.
A little bit exhausting are the villagers, mostly the children who stay all day at the fence of the property and watch us working for hours. Because there is no internet in Chencha, you will get the next news on friday before our return.
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