Ready to Roll ...

We are ready to put some of our design concepts into practice - at last!

We have a small plot in Kisii with a hut on it and a river on the border, perfect for an experimental shamba.

Apart from actually growing food for the kids at the Twiga Home, we will be harvesting methane to be used for cooking and running a small generator. We will also be purifying water straight from the river, producing pure clean drinking water using a system designed to be built from scrap and cheap materials.

If we can get the raw materials, we will also be producing bio-diesel and a hydrogen production system for petrol cars (it doesn't replace petrol, but cuts consumption by up to 50%).

We are in the fund-searching phase of the operation. Anyone with ideas as to who we could approach, please let us know.

OK, I give up!

I really thought that trying to earn our own funds rather than going around cap in hands was a good way forward in financing our future projects.

Maybe it is, but after two attempts to get a business off the ground, I have fallen flat on my face and lost a fair amount of my own money in the process.

[I had to use my own money because anything that comes into the organisation goes towards feeding and housing the kids - and that is paramount.]

I am not really going to give up. After all, I have developed websites and sunk money into these projects, so they have to carry on.

But, in the meantime, we are back to going around, cap in hand looking for hand-outs.

Take a look at some of our projects

Funding our work II

This was a wild dream a few months ago, a pipe-dream, a silly idea, total rot!

Not so now though. Things are afoot to actually make a reasonable income that will totally fund at least one project, and once that is started, if it is successful, that will help fund another, and so on.

We could be setting a trend. Whereas, many British charities have shops in the UK to raise money for work overseas, we are opening a business in the country where we are doing the charity work and creating employment at the same time.

I like this idea. I like it a lot. Let's hope it works, and that we can expand it!