mendenyo February 21, 2011
Nikki - Can you help me find some information? I'm trying to catch up with my emails. Some, including the ones I have copied below from Graham and Sam have been overlooked in the past week or so. I feel bad about it - as Sam and his friends and neighbours are facing their problems now, and we do not have the resources to rescue them. All we can do is to try to make it less of a problem in the longer term.
- Nicola (Nikki) Fishman http://www.dadamac.net/about/Nicola
- Graham Knight http://www.dadamac.net/network/graham-knight
- Samwel Kongere http://www.dadamac.net/network/samwel-kongere
- Sam mentions "Lanina" - see news on La Niña in East Africa from IRIN - http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=91966
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Can you help me find more Information? I think it may be relevant to the emails between Graham and Sam (Did you meet Sam when he was staying with me?) I don't see we can do anything to help the livestock grazing, but maybe the pots could do something to help the cereal crop - if not this year then at least next year.
Anyhow I don't want to give Sam only half the story from Attachab - or suggest something that is maybe not working as well as people hoped or anything like that - but if the method could be useful then I want to share the latest info with him as completely as possible, ("warts and all" if there are any - so he can decide for himself).
- John Dada http://www.dadamac.net/about/john
Can you fill in any details for me, or narrow my search, or would I need to check all through the intervening skype chat?
Do we know how John came to start using the pots - via Graham? via things the team saw at Benin? via Marcus or Jim? or even via someone local who could remember how it was done?
- Marcus Simmons http://www.dadamac.net/network/marcus-simmons
- Jim Guy http://www.dadamac.net/network/jim-guy
I cannot help thinking that if Minciu Sodas was still active then Andrius would be coming up with a strategy, as he did during the post election violence with Pyramid of Peace (but that is just wishful thinking - because although he made a great impact he didn't manage to raise money outside of his circle and had to borrow much of what he sent - so how could he do some thing like that again?)
- Pyramid of Peace - some background - Phone for Peace intro http://phone4peace.blogspot.com/
- Pyramid of Peace - Archive - http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?PyramidOfPeace
- Andrius Kulikauskas http://www.dadamac.net/network/andrius-kulikauskas
- Minciu Sodas http://www.dadamac.net/network/minciu-sodas
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From: GRAHAM KNIGHT <DIYSolar@btinternet.com>
Date: 10 February 2011 10:03
Subject: Re: [mendenyo] Saving water
To: mendenyo@yahoogroups.com
Hi All, Anyone who is concerned about minimising plant watering consumption might benefit from information I have obtained. Just email biodes@bigfoot.com and I will send (or post) a doc about sub-surface irrigation with simple devices Graham
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