[Stoves] Help needed to deal with excess rain

[Cookswell Jikos]

Dear George,

Sorry to hear about your problems with the rain.

Very well done with growing tree's along the borders - this should help
slow down some of the surface runoff but if you want to have a very large
effect - make lemonade from lemons and make full use of this wet season to
try some direct seeding tree planting - this is a method that can be very
cost effective and you can plant a huge forest! Please have a look at this
interesting link from MSU with alot more information about this.
http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1588.htm

Best of Luck,

Teddy

*Cookswell Jikos*
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:37 PM, George Riegg Gambia <icecool at qanet.gm>wrote:

>  Fellow stovers - and briquetteers,
>
> Compared to some disasters happening around the globe our own predicament
> here is almost insignificant.
>
> However, after many years of struggling, researching (with a lot of
> practical help and encouragement from some people here - THANK YOU) we are
> finally moving on in this small and almost forgotten little corner of the
> world - The Gambia.
>
> In 2011/12 we carried out an 18 months pilot under the WB BEIA initiative
> researching and finally adapting what in my mind is a GREAT stove to make
> it - almost - "our own" - the Furno EES - based on Chispin's Vesto and
> adapted to local needs and manufacturing capabilities.
>
> Now we are waiting until the "big boys" can agree to pre-finance the first
> test batch of 500 to be locally made.The 24 households who have been doing
> our long-term (almost by default) on-the-ground research could not imagine
> how to do without it anymore!
>
> At the same time we researched, tested and started making briquettes with
> Richard's help and encouragement. As stove and briquettes were developed
> side by side they fit like a hand in glove and it's a joy to use them
> together.
>
> 2 years ago we found a small follow-on grant to train and set up our first
> 2 community briquetting enterprises. In addition we want to try another one
> in a local state-run Primary School - the WFP assisted School Feeding
> Programme will be slowly phased out accross most of The Gambia so to set up
> schools as briquetting enterprises would be a great way to help counteract
> this reduction in funding.
>
> With the usual expected delays this new pilot finally kicked off just as
> the rains hit us in July. By the time they finished our road was washed
> away. We tried the local way but even a few tons of concrete bricks ended
> up in the river. Our building is sinking and cracking and access by vehicle
> will be impossible until all that's fixed.
>
> We are trying locally whatever we can do. We will be planting Vettiver and
> trees (from our own nursery) along our perimeter to at least stabilise the
> road and buildings for the future. But we can not find local "disaster
> relief" assistance to fix the road - in the greater scheme of chaos ours
> is..... So we need to turn to our networks and ask:
>
> Can YOU help? We started a fundraiser on
>
>
> http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/support-environmental-sustainability-in-the-gambia/100067
>
> and we would appreciate if YOU could spread the word. If anybody feels
> really rich don't be shy - a few bucks from your pocket go a long way here.
>
>
>
> Thanks from the team at PRSP and the communities of Abuko and Fajikunda to
> Tom and Erin to allow us to post this here - after all, this all IS in the
> spirit of bringing sustainable development to places like here!
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> George from the jungle
>
> oooor.... beside the creek
>
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