Women are key in making sure trees are planted and nutured and grown. They know the trees will provide food and fire wood , shade and jobs for their futures.  Without firewood women walk many miles to get wood, sometimes putting themselves at risk. More real stories how planting trees is just the beginning. See www.aidafrica.net 

Julie and I are at the L.A. airport awaiting our flight. Our traveling companion Kyla has been delayed a week because she forgot her passport in Fresno. We are all so sad for her. But she will come next Monday.

Next stop is London. Julie and I will have time to venture downtown before continuing to Entebbe. I'll have no Internet until we're I'm Uganda.

I hope to post almost daily on this trip. But I've said that before....

Until Uganda,

Peter

Local Ugandans learn to make the bricks that ultimately become stoves.Our "rocket stoves" are just six bricks, some wire and mud.  But these simple devices are life-changing to an African family. 

 

The stove reduces household emissions  by 75% (compared to a traditional cooking  fire)  No more blinding smoke and sore red eyes. No more house fires, choking, breathing problems and lung disease.  

The stove uses only half as much wood, so fewer hours are spent collecting wood and more time for is available for tending to family, farming, and business.

Come to our website, aidafrica.net and see the finished product. Just $10 provides a stove to a impoverished family and puts them on the road to health and well-being. Our goal is to build and provide two stoves for every home. Donation options at our website.

 

Would you be willing to skip a handful of coffees over the next couple weeks in order to help provide water for a thirsty child?

Would you forego a restaurant meal to provide help to provide water for an entire village?

 Can you help us raise $2500 in less than  three weeks?

In just two weeks, I’m taking a team back to Northern Uganda. Tens of thousands of people live in villages with no clean drinking water. Many are dying needlessly of waterborne diseases from the contaminated surface water they drink. By using simple human-powered technologies (developed by some of our big-hearted engineer friends!), we can provide new wells – with clean water -- for a fraction of the cost of commercial well drilling.

That $2,500 will allow us to complete five new shallow wells in the impoverished Ugandan villages. (Compare that to the $10,000 required to dig one deep well!) There are trade-offs, of course, but these simple wells will bring immediate relief to thirsty people in desperate need of clean water.

 Can you make a donation of $35, $50, or $100 today? Or more?

 Here’s how you can do it: the simplest way is to go to our website (www.AidAfrica.net) and click on the DONATE button. Or mail your check to

Aid Africa

3916 Pennsylvania Avenue.

La Crescenta, CA 91214

The thirsty people of Northern Uganda will thank you. And I personally thank you.

Sincerely,

 Peter Keller

Executive Director, Aid Africa

PS. We’re leaving soon. Please respond quickly if you can help.  

 

Would you be willing to skip a handful of coffees over the next couple weeks in order to help provide water for a thirsty child?

Would you forego a restaurant meal to provide help to provide water for an entire village?

 Can you help us raise $2500 in less than  three weeks?

In just two weeks, I’m taking a team back to Northern Uganda. Tens of thousands of people live in villages with no clean drinking water. Many are dying needlessly of waterborne diseases from the contaminated surface water they drink. By using simple human-powered technologies (developed by some of our big-hearted engineer friends!), we can provide new wells – with clean water -- for a fraction of the cost of commercial well drilling.

That $2,500 will allow us to complete five new shallow wells in the impoverished Ugandan villages. (Compare that to the $10,000 required to dig one deep well!) There are trade-offs, of course, but these simple wells will bring immediate relief to thirsty people in desperate need of clean water.

 Can you make a donation of $35, $50, or $100 today? Or more?

 Here’s how you can do it: the simplest way is to go to our website (www.AidAfrica.net) and click on the DONATE button. Or mail your check to

Aid Africa

3916 Pennsylvania Avenue.

La Crescenta, CA 91214

The thirsty people of Northern Uganda will thank you. And I personally thank you.

Sincerely,

 Peter Keller

Executive Director, Aid Africa

PS. We’re leaving soon. Please respond quickly if you can help.  

The picture here was taken last year with the staff. This month Peter, Aid Africa's Executive Director, on far left,  and Julie Jacks, board member (5th from left)  are heading to Uganda again.  They will be working the the staff and seeing the progress being made building rocket stoves, planting trees, and repaiing water wells and creating Sheltered Springs. "Stay tuned" for their reports from "on the ground"  

The picture here was taken last year with the staff. This month Peter, Aid Africa's Executive Director, on far left,  and Julie Jacks, board member (5th from left)  are heading to Uganda again.  They will be working the the staff and seeing the progress being made building rocket stoves, planting trees, and repaiing water wells and creating Sheltered Springs. "Stay tuned" for their reports from "on the ground"  

Target number 10 of the The Millenium Development goals established by the UN is to halve the proportion of people without sustainable  access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015

In some places reaching that goal is attainable. In Uganda, near Gulu we are still at it. AID AFRICA finds water, repairs broken wells, and builds sheltered springs. 

Access to clean water keeps people healthy and safe. Check out more of what AID FRICA does at www.aidafrica.net  

 

 

Aid Africa plants trees. These trees provide shade, food, jobs, firewood and hope.  

A simple avacado tree costs only 15 cents and will feed a family for 80 years. We plant trees as seedlings and then our staff circulate them to villages near Gulu. Training to care for them included.

This picture is from a friend in another part of Uganda who has heard of our project and wants trees to help in his area. Its a great need.

 You can help too by checking out our website to learn more about what we do and by buying some trees. Donation info at www.aidafrica.net