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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bob,<br>
Are you suggesting that the Maasai people are not burdened, as are
most cultures, by nostalgia. Or is that the property of men.<br>
Alex<br>
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On 23/01/2013 8:23 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rbtvl@aol.com">rbtvl@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
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"Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cultures
are
dynamic not static.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ours
stoves become
a part of that dynamic world.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes;"> </span>I work
with the Maasai of Tanzania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the
women have mobile phones, changing the way they can plan and
cooperate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
and more girls are resisting leaving
school to enter the marriages their fathers have arranged
for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are national laws against Female
Genital Mutilation that communities must either comply with
or resist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are more motor cycles, more young men
finding jobs in the city. Weather patterns seems less
predictable to them, and they are concerned about their
livestock and are doing more farming.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
stove
is produced locally. The women helped us design it over a
year and a half. The brick work for the chimney, the hole
in the roof,
the installation are done by teams of women who love the new
work that the
thought “only men could do”. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes;"> </span>Work like
this was never in their culture before. The ten to fifteen
hours per week they
now don’t have to spend gathering wood are spent on their
small farms or other
activities which change the balance of activity in their
culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No smoke
in the house means kids sick less,
more peace and time for mom. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes;"> </span>With the
soot gone, they get light colored mud and redecorate their
interiors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
the solar systems they buy from us, they have light at night
without having to
light a smoky fire in the middle of the room.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They welcome
these pressures on
their culture that are occurring alongside all the other
pressures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
never would have
thought to get better stoves.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes;"> </span>That was
our idea. They jumped at it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span
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Project</span></span></div>
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