On Saturday evening, we were able to attend "Tonight for Tanzania." The event was organized by Charities and people in the Ottawa-Tanzanian community. It was a great opportunity to hear the thoughts and experiences for from volunteers of different charitable

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Last night we had the opportunity to attend Tonight for Tanzania with a few of the students from engineering and business. We got to try ugali, cassava leaves, and some other foods from Tanzania while we saw some dance, poetry, and

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The Maasai have benefited from tourism, as it has allowed them to develop businesses from selling beads, masks, carvings and other hand made goods to tourists. They also perform ceremonies for a tourist audience, and it has been suggested the tourism

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/tech/innovation/pavegen-kinetic-pavements/ "We recently came back from a big outdoor festival where we got over 250,000 footsteps -- that was enough to charge 10,000 mobile phones," said Kemball-Cook.

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“The use of participatory design is often advocated when developing new solutions for economically or socially marginalised people in developing countries. It is argued that through including users in the design process designers can understand their needs better”  This article examines

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Karatu is a 2 hour drive from Longido There is no municipal waste collection in Karatu, so they collect all the garbage in a pile and burn it, which sometimes causes a giant smoke to cover the town The people

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Indoor Air Pollution Biomass in the form of dung, wood, and crop residues is burned in 2/5 homes Most housing at temperate latitudes has relatively low air exchange rates Incomplete combustion produces byproducts that are harmful, most of which are released

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