Going to make a bottle light as in the link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMAWztZ6TI it was developed in the philipines due to a necessity. The first one for galvinised sheeting is going into La Union school and hope to have it made and installed by next weekend. Going to also make wall lights, patent pending also, this is by gluing two bottles together so that enough light can enter the bottle outside and enter the inside. Going to wrap the area inside the wall in tinfoil also. Bottle will be at an angle downwards to outside to aid water run off.
The idea of these projects, besides the fact i am in my element, is to first establish the best way to do it, best practise through trial and error, and document it, creating a method statement. These method statements can then be used by anybody who is intertested in learning or teaching these methods. So basically rather than just building bottle lights the idea is to teach people how to build bottle lights. Easy for me to you tube bottle lights, bit more difficult when you dont know how to turn a computer on.
Other projects I am thinking of doing include:
bottle lights for tiles roofs
Sheeps wool insulation ' preperation and installation
recycled paper preperation and installation
stabilised earth blocks testing and fabrication
water tanks for rain water harvesting
bio digesters , fancy word for tank that holds manure and the methane is captured and used as gas for cooking
washing stations
green house
gas bottle stoves-ovens
adobe stoves
adobe pizza and bread ovens
sheeps wool draft excluders
skylights for tiles
lime rendering
earthquake resistant adobe block and bamboo structures ' also patent pending ha ha
When these method statements are complete I intend on holding workshops to explain them, not only necessarily to the end user but also to people who will be holding there own workshops. I had intended on taking the show on the road to coban for a couple of months around May and June but I think with the two other volunteers leaving it might be a bit unfair. I have commited to going to coban and I will but probably only at the weekends or for a week or two in this time. When we first discussed the whole Coban idea it was decided that Sunday after mass was the best time for workshops so this shouldnt really be a problem.
Next Wednesday the first of Febuary I am going to live on a euro a day for a month. This effectively means, no beer, no meat, no computer or travelling, well hopefully going to visit internet Sunday week to say hello to family etc., This might sound a bit severe in Irish terms but its actaully the average income here in La Cumbre. I know ive already mentioned it but half the worlds population live on less than 2 dollars a day and half of them live on less than a dollar. Dont care what anybody says. For one person to be super rich, it takes a hell of a lot of people to be super poor. Thats the way the system works no two ways about it.
In June as already mentioned in previous Blog we are planning on bringing 200 or so kids from Communidad Esperanza to Tikal. And repeating the excercise in July for the kids receiving scholarships with Seeds of Help with a stop off in Semuc Champey. This will keep me fundraising and writing blogs I think.
Have a look at the blog called house appeal for the big project...........
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