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Michigan Students Raise $800 for Alternative Fuel in the Congo
AP is seeking funds to support the program by Arche d’Alliance in 2010. In the meantime, the blogs of Ned and Walter have helped to build a constituency for the work of Congolese civil society in Uvira, including some seed money for the alternative fuel project of Clement Kitambala.
On September 14, 2009, students at the Vesta Cooperative House, Michigan University, organized a party to raise funds for Tunza Mazingira. The initiative came from Ros Meerdink, and her twin brother Jordan, in response to the blogs of their elder brother Ned. Ned blogged about the event from far-off Uvira:
“Thanks to Vesta Cooperative House in East Lansing, Michigan for ‘partying with a purpose’ on behalf of Tunza Mazingira and the alternative cooking fuel program which was started this last year by Tunza field worker Clément Kitambala.
“Vesta Co-op raised over $800. The money will go directly to Tunza Mazingira, and will allow us to 1) build three new briquette presses; 2) offer small loans to women who cook and sell road-side food, using alternative cooking fuel; 3) give work to 12 demobilized girls coming out of armed groups (which decreases the likeliness of their rejoining militias due to lack of income), who are making and selling alternative briquettes and will do so on a larger scale in the coming weeks with the new presses; and 4) spread awareness throughout Uvira on the benefits of using the briquettes in place of wood or makala-based cooking fires.
“Vesta Co-op’s generosity (and that of all the party goers) has jump-started Clément’s work in Uvira, and everyone from Tunza’s staff sends their sincere thanks to the co-opers and everyone responsible for organizing the party, making food, buying/drinking booze, and collecting money. All this sort of makes me wish I was still in college…”
The event was covered by an online Michigan newspaper, The State News. Back
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Michigan Students Raise $800 for Alternative Fuel in the Congo
AP is seeking funds to support the program by Arche d’Alliance in 2010. In the meantime, the blogs of Ned and Walter have helped to build a constituency for the work of Congolese civil society in Uvira, including some seed money for the alternative fuel project of Clement Kitambala.
On September 14, 2009, students at the Vesta Cooperative House, Michigan University, organized a party to raise funds for Tunza Mazingira. The initiative came from Ros Meerdink, and her twin brother Jordan, in response to the blogs of their elder brother Ned. Ned blogged about the event from far-off Uvira:
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“Vesta Co-op raised over $800. The money will go directly to Tunza Mazingira, and will allow us to 1) build three new briquette presses; 2) offer small loans to women who cook and sell road-side food, using alternative cooking fuel; 3) give work to 12 demobilized girls coming out of armed groups (which decreases the likeliness of their rejoining militias due to lack of income), who are making and selling alternative briquettes and will do so on a larger scale in the coming weeks with the new presses; and 4) spread awareness throughout Uvira on the benefits of using the briquettes in place of wood or makala-based cooking fires.
“Vesta Co-op’s generosity (and that of all the party goers) has jump-started Clément’s work in Uvira, and everyone from Tunza’s staff sends their sincere thanks to the co-opers and everyone responsible for organizing the party, making food, buying/drinking booze, and collecting money. All this sort of makes me wish I was still in college…”
The event was covered by an online Michigan newspaper, The State News. Back