https://youtu.be/D-AWhhDZnYM Our El Llanito Nicaragua water supply project team is working on our annual Engineers Without Borders – San Francisco Professional chapter annual fundraising gala, SFari 2017, at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco on Thursday, October 19th beginning at 7PM. Our project team is also applying for a $6k grant for the water project from our chapter. The requirements we need to fulfill to obtain the grant include two chapter-wide fundraisers. We are launching these and would appreciate your support. Please consider donating or registering to participate in our … [Read more...] about Fundraising for Engineers Without Borders San Francisco Professional chapter
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presented on Rotary Global Grants In Action: Update, Composting Latrines Project, Nicaragua
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I presented at our Rotary Club of Livermore on 7/26/17 on Rotary Global Grants In Action: Update, Composting Latrines Project, Nicaragua. I'm scheduled to present a similar talk to the Rotary Club of the Livermore Valley on 8/15/17. In addition, we showed selected parts of this video of Daniel, removing compost from his composting latrine. He's been using his since the 2010 deployment. He and his wife have participated in the community workshops for the 2014 and current projects, sharing their experience and answering questions. … [Read more...] about presented on Rotary Global Grants In Action: Update, Composting Latrines Project, Nicaragua
Heading for Belize after great week in Nicaragua
This was a very productive week. I'm leaving for Belize tomorrow, returning home Saturday mid-day. With our NGO partner, Alcance Nicaragua, I visited all four of the communities that we are working in. I documented the construction status of our composting latrines in Los Alvarez and El Llanito, near Santa Lucia in Boaco; and El Tunel and La Prussia, near Masaya and Granada. In addition, we were able to talk to the builders, community organizers, and individual family members who are participating in the project. I captured suggestions and observations from the builders to consider for … [Read more...] about Heading for Belize after great week in Nicaragua
Ecostoves in Comejen Nicaragua
Yesterday we left Santa Lucia where we been looking at the composting latrine project and Alcance's work in new communities. We arrived at Alcance's offices in Masaya around 11 am. They gave me an update on their work on the composting latrines in La Prussia and El Tunel and their Initiatives with new communities. After lunch together, the Santa Lucia group went back. I went with Ricardo Rivera and Adriana Cruz to Comejen, one of the new communities they're working in. We met with two families to discuss their experience with the pilot project for ecostoves. These ecostoves are so … [Read more...] about Ecostoves in Comejen Nicaragua
Belize Open Source Sustainable Development
I'll be traveling to Belize, Wednesday 5/31 and be there till mid-day 6/3/17. Since I've been in Nicaragua for the composting latrine project, makes sense to stop in on my way home. Here are photos from my last stop in December 2016, after our Engineers Without Borders assessment trip for the water supply project in El Llanito, Nicaragua. These selected ones show me with one of the improved cashews in our orchard, the caretaker's residence, and our "tiny house," where I usually stay.In the background can see our shed which covers our 40' shipping container and part of our corrals. I've also … [Read more...] about Belize Open Source Sustainable Development