Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives $50,000 from the UNDP to support a Waste for Life initiative in Lesotho
Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives $50,000 from the UNDP to support a Waste for Life initiative in Lesotho
Caroline, Eric, Thimothy, and Emily have just published a book about Waste for Life and the methodology we have honed during the past four years. From the introduction: Engineers can help make the world a better place. We can provide better access to water, health, food, shelter, education and warmth, and we have the potential [...]
Some members of our team in Lesotho, Australia, Italy, United States and Canada have been working to put together a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program GEF-SGP administered by UNDP Lesotho. The project proposal is in the final stages and it is likely to be funded very soon. The project involves 8 [...]
It seems to me that the conversations we are having now with cooperatives about our project are more detailed and to the point than they were when we arrived. Of course, you will say, because you now know more about what you are doing. But in fact, I haven’t noticed that we present the project [...]
Last week disappeared very quickly in a kaleidoscope of visits to all manner of extraordinary places outside the city. The first visit was to La Vallol where went to visit a ‘Barrios de Pie’ home building project. Except there were no building materials and so no work was actually going on. Apparently the money/materials from [...]