For more than a year now, I-love-Windpower Tanzania has been busy building wind turbines in rural areas of Tanzania. And with great success! 9 turbines have been installed over this past last year, generating electricity for little schools and hospitals. To keep the turbines running they need to be monitored and maintained in order to… Read more »
The last couple of months we get more and more questions from people of countries bordering Tanzania, like Kenya, Uganda and Malawi. Sometimes the question is about a training in the local town of the interested person or NGO. In that case we are not sure if the building materials can be procured locally. However,… Read more »
TEDx stands for an independently organized TED-event. This year, a TEDx was organized in Dar Es Salaam and I was very happy to be nominated to speech! My TED-talk is about the inevitable global energy crisis and how to take action yourself in anticipation to this crisis. I really would have liked to give the URL to… Read more »
From June to October 2011, a wind turbine construction workshop took place in a technical educational institute in Chihuahua, northern city of México. This activity was developed in collaboration with the “Instituto Tecnológico de Chihuahua” (ITCH), which is a renowned technical public institute (university level) over there. The main target of this activity was… Read more »
Dar Es Salaam has a special hospital for people with a disability. The full name of the organization (NGO) behind this hospital is Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Tanzania (CCBRT). We are very pleased that they bought the wind turbine which resulted from the training with the students of the Yombo Vocational Training Center, who have… Read more »