“Would you like to see my biogas generator?” My jaw dropped. There I was, standing in a small, rural, Muslim village in Northern Ghana with the tallest Ghanaian farmer I’ve ever seen asking me if I wanted to see his biogas generator. I did, and we progressed to see the gas stove that Mandeya cooks [...]
Living with HIV/AIDS
December 1st, 2011 was world AIDS day. Around the world there were speeches and talks about the state of the spread or decline of the disease It was generally agreed that we are making progress, but that more needs to be done, and we need to do it now. I spent the day travelling from [...]
Quiet Mornings
Since moving to Lusaka, my mornings have been noticeably more quiet than the past 3 years. I say noticeably, although it took me coming back out to the district to notice how much louder the mornings are in the rural areas. Or maybe it’s not more – but rather it’s different. Certainly in Lusaka, I [...]
Solar Zambia
In the past five years since I originally started looking into the renewable energy sector, things have changed a lot. Five years ago, as part of our final engineering design project, my team worked with a small start-up solar energy company operating out of Southern Ontario. It was an interesting project and a great learning [...]
Fashion Malawi
It used to baffle me that with all the beautiful cloth that you can find around Malawi, there seemed to be a dearth of good tailors and seamstresses and fashion designers. Malawian women would buy the cloth (Chitenge) but never make anything from it, for fear of it being “ruined”. After a few such attempts [...]
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