From: Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@...>
Subject: [mendenyo] DIY Solar; Malaria Bed Nets
To: mendenyo@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 2:58 AM

Peter, Graham,

Thank you for your letters.

Peter, you know realistically the strengths and weaknesses of the solar
rechargers for mobile phone batteries. What do you think is the best kind
of business that could result where you live? As Graham writes, the
business plans must come from Africa.
For example, if it takes 7 hours to recharge a battery (is that true?)
then obviously people can't wait to have their batteries recharged.
However, you could have a "club" where club members come, leave their
uncharged batteries and pick up fresh batteries. Also, club members might
earn points that lead to having a solar panel at home. And there can be
other services. This is just a thought.

Andrius,

     This is a bright idea which we originally had before. Since we have an active youth group in  place, we thought of having different stations for charging mobile phones (having the stations close and easily reachable by the villagers to reduce long distances to places where they can charge their phones. Two, charging fee could be at a  reduced  fee of  Ksh. 10,  instead of Ksh. 20) We had also projected this business to be run by those who are weak (the HIV/AIDS_infected people) who can not  do heavy works like fishing and doing farm works for survival. Already we have two electrician members who are really very good in Solar systems and I hope we would still make up the business either through the above method and by selling the Solar modules.  Ones you  organize with Graham for the modules to be sent to us,   we would establish a DIY Solar workshop to serve and help manage this business successfully. We have been just waiting for the business....we are fully prepared it.

  
Peter, who is the person who would write the report? Would they be
interested in participating in Minciu Sodas? And what kind of help might
you like from our community online?
  

This is  a Phd. Student  from Kenyatta  University in Kenya. He has been all a long helping me very much on this my project of malaria bed net  survey study....like developing protocol for survey, helped me with flash Disk to store the informations on credit to pay him later,  and giving me several ideas on how this can be developed to a wider proposal as  new   approach  to malaria control within the region. He is even the person who encouraged us  to carry out the prelliminary  survey in the community and this has really worked well. The informations are interesting very much and representative on the use of bed nets by the community in efforts to control malaria. Meanwhile a strongly see him as the person to help me analyse the data and  writting of the report. This work could have been finished by now but because, I could not be able to raise money for flash Disk and meet some small fee for this man to help me go through the work particularly in writing the report, the whole work has druged us back up to day. This is the reason I could see the $100 can help us to make a step than being stagnant. I know some other things may be back there like compensating those who helped in the data collections, but those can wait untill we organize this project to a level it can attract donor body or NGO who might  be interested in the future to join hands with us to fight malaria.

  Ongele.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms. lt
ms@...

> Hi Andrius,
>   *** Graham Knight http://biodesign. webeden.co. uk is promoting the use
> in
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> Africa of solar powered battery rechargers for mobile phones. I sponsored
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> a $100 project in which Peter Ongele in Kenya demonstrated that indeed,
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> this technology works. So now we might do a further $100 project to
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> explore business possibilities. Kennedy Owino, Samwel Kongere, Tom
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> Ochuka, Wendi Loshe Bernadette, Peter Ongele, perhaps one or more of you
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> (or others?) might be interested?* ***
>    I appreciate this idea. To some extend, we had reached some levels of
> discussions with Graham on the possibilities of the business. I think  now
> we can sort out the business issue together...letting the team to
> contribute on the way the business can be run,  sales accountability and
> how the MS Lab.  groups and the developing communities  would benefit from
> this business. Graham to lead us, I hope he must have some ideas on this
> kind of international businesses. I agree to take up the business on
> behalf of you and the  MS Lab. ones everything is finalised.
>       **** Peter Ongele is interested to survey the effectiveness of the
> use or
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> misuse of bednets to prevent malaria. He's already done some initial
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> work. http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ learnhowtolearn/ message/359
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> Peter Burgess has written several supportive letters. Are you working
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> together? Perhaps I might sponsor a small project? Peter, what might you
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> achieve with $100?****
>     Its long time I heard from Peter Burgess. I tried to write to him
> several times on the developments I had on this project but he has not
> been on the line. Have you ever heard from him on this project? Several
> times, I've insisted that this project is to be purely for MS Lab.
> People may not understand why I insist so, but this is one big project
> in the public domain forums just like media news for awareness and
> creating of opportunities for other intergrated methods for malaria
> controls. Let us open MS Lab.  from here to open doors to share and
> collaborate  with the rest of the world in the fight to malaria and
> other insect vector borne diseases.  My heart is burning, malaria is
> killing people  (children and HIV  people), what can we do as  MS Lab.
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>  I've just finished entering the datas in the computer and I'm to start to
> work on the data analysis. I would appreciate to have the $100 offer to
> hire a senoir person here to hel p in writing the report of 334 house hold
> sampled in the  survey. I'll bring the abstract report to the forum for
> comments and reccomendations  before we forward it for publication.
>   Thank you all, stay blessed.
>   Peter Ongele. 
>
> --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@...> wrote:
> From: Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@...>
> Subject: [mendenyo] Minciu Sodas $100 Projects
> To: onereachinganother@ yahoogroups. com, socialagriculture@ yahoogroups. com
> Cc: mendenyo@yahoogroup s.com, fightingpeacefully@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 7:56 AM
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> I'm inspired with all the wonderful activity at our Minciu
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> laboratory's many groups. http://www.ms. lt/news.php I've been working
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> full-time teaching math at the American University in Bosnia and
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> Herzegovina http://www.aubih. ba I'd like to invest some of the money I'm
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> earning to strengthen our networks and open opportunities.
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> Please consider participating in $100 projects. We have shown many times
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> how a small amount of money (typically, $100) can sponsor a project that
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> makes a step forward in our thinking and working together. I can support
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> some example projects and I hope more of us might, too. I don't have time
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> to manage or run individual projects and so that is where we need your
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> help! Here are some examples that I have in mind:
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> * Graham Knight http://biodesign. webeden.co. uk is promoting the use in
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> Africa of solar powered battery rechargers for mobile phones. I sponsored
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> a $100 project in which Peter Ongele in Kenya demonstrated that indeed,
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> this technology works. So now we might do a further $100 project to
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> explore business possibilities. Kennedy Owino, Samwel Kongere, Tom
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> Ochuka, Wendi Loshe Bernadette, Peter Ongele, perhaps one or more of you
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> (or others?) might be interested?      
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> * Peter Ongele is interested to survey the effectiveness of the use or
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> misuse of bednets to prevent malaria. He's already done some initial
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> work. http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ learnhowtolearn/ message/359
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> Peter Burgess has written several supportive letters. Are you working
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> together? Perhaps I might sponsor a small project? Peter, what might you
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> achieve with $100?
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> * Benoit Couture wants to start a reconciliation center in Edmonton for
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> nurturing his and other families
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> http://worknets. ning.com/ group/edmontonre conciliationcent re
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> Perhaps Fred Kayiwa could do some social networking to help find others in
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> Edmonton who might be interested?
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> * Franz Nahrada wants to promote Gleb Turin's global villages work in the
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> Archangelsk province of Russia. Tomas Cepaitis, Foreign Minister of
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> Uzhupis, could translate between Russian, English and also involve people
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> in Russia, Lithuania and other countries.
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> * Fred Kayiwa is starting to build websites for NGOs such as Uganda Youth
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> Football. He needs help to learn how to build web pages. Others are also
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> interested to learn. Perhaps Kiyavilo Msekwa or somebody else might tutor
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> our participants? perhaps at our chat room?
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> * Edward Cherlin has invited us to give ideas for a Sugar Labs proposal.
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> I suggest, for example, that children might use Sugar and the OLPC to help
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> adults get their stories and wisdom out, especially the differently abled.
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> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/earthtreas ury/message/ 134 This would be
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> great for our Includer project http://www.includer .org which could use
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> Sugar on old computers and other devices.
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> * Charles Williams is helping David Ellison-Bey participate more actively
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> online. As he suggested, I could dedicate some money for a new printer
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> for David, but especially if they might work together. I would like to do
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> video bridges with them. David has a laptop and a projector.
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> http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ socialagricultur e/message/ 1077
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> * Freddie A. Green of the House of Culture in Chicago wants help with his
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> websites and to link them up with our Minciu Sodas laboratory. I would be
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> glad to sponsor $100 towards Charles services for Freddie, especially if
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> they might strengthen our network together.
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> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/onereachin ganother/ message/246
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> * Marcin Jakubowski has a great blog. Perhaps somebody in Africa might
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> help promote his innovations and see who might be interested to try one or
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> more of them out? This could be a good example of spreading content
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> * It would be great if somebody might work with Ricardo to survey all of
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> our African participants to learn what kind of Internet access and
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> computers they have, and what kind of Includer would be useful for them.
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> * We could do a project with Masimba Biriwiasha to support his book and
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> library program. I would like to work with a math teacher and ultimately
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> publish my algebra notes there to see if they might be useful there.
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> * Sasha Mrkailo has agreed to work a bit for me to look for EU funding for
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> projects with the university here in Bosnia, which might include our chat
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> room, peacemaking, math education, statistics education and a global
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> villages index.
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> And many more projects:
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> * Kennedy Owino and others care about the differently abled.
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> * Cathy Stubington shared with us a fantastic project for making sanitary
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> We also need much help with programming at our websites, including
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> teaching people how to program. These are not big solutions (I've had
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> disastrous experiences with Drupal and other content management systems)
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> but little $100 projects, for example, to link Twitter with our chat room,
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> or to access the NING system to know who is logged in and let other
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> programs use that information. I would very much like to work with Todd
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> Kelsey, Alex Rollin and others and thank you for the important discussion
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> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/globalvill ages/message/ 3785
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> Each project should involve at least a pair of people, typically:
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> Each of these people should share with us:
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> * a question that they don't know the answer to, but this project might
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> * their relevant values, why is this project important to them?
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> That helps us work together in a deep way.
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> Finally, how does your project strengthen our network? This could
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> * business opportunities for yourself or me or others at our lab
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> * new relationships for working together both for free and for pay
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> * infrastructure online or on-the-ground for our lab and network
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> * examples that showcase what we could achieve if we had funding
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> I will send the money at the start of the project. No deliverables are
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> I can support quite a few projects. And then we can find more supporters.
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> What we really need is YOU! either doing a project or guiding it so that
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> Andrius Kulikauskas
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> Minciu Sodas
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