One of the many waste materials available in the world is animal waste and with the Maasai's main culture in herding animals comes with a potential abundance of animal waste as well. Each cow, for example can contain approximately 8

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Life Style For breakfast they eat a thin water and wheat mix, similar to cream of wheat. For their other meal they like to eat ugali which is a thick mashed potato-like of water and flour and they like it a

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All of the topics we have been researching over the last month and a half fit together in a whole system. We've found that each part compliments another, and that most topics support another in some shape or form. We've

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Agriculture is a key source of income for many people throughout Tanzania. However, in Longido, due to dry climate much of their food is brought in from other areas, and food growth is limited. Some places have used Hafirs on

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With the opportunity to work with the engineering and business students over the past few weeks we have seen several approaches to problem solving and have tried to learn from them. One example of this occurred after participating in a

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Design seems to center more as design FOR developing countries, instead of design IN developing countries. The design process is short and depends on the free time of the designer as the goal of the whole project is to merely

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A woman using the Hippo Roller in transporting water The Hippo Roller aims in reducing the amount of time and physical strain of transporting water from a source to the home. Many women and children spend a lot of labouring

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Virginia Taylor, our current liaison in Longido, Tanzania was able to provide us with some quantitative data on the consumption of water in the village. The following are taken from the email provided by her. Domestic Water Demand: per capita:

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Image from here of MPower and Off the Grid Electric in Arusha, Tanzania Currently in Longido, Tanzania there is a group from MPower working with solar panels to provide energy to the residents of the village. MPower is an Arusha

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Access to clean water for drinking, water for cleaning, sanitary living and working conditions and sanitary latrines play a large role in the success of education (Buzarwa, 2012). Both teachers and children benefit when clean water is accessible. When teacher's

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In his TED talk, 'When an NGO Failure Leads to Success' David Damberger of Engineers Without Borders discusses the lack of published failures for organizations to learn from. On his first project David went into an area of Malawi and drilled

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I started reading a report on food insecurity in Tanzania called: Tanzania - Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis 2012. Findings were based on data generated from the 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 Tanzania National Panel Surveys (NPS). The purpose of the study was to

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   Introduction Have to look at design for the BOP as a design challenge and NOT a charity case BOP defined as people living on less than $2/day and number about 2 billion We can’t assume we know what the

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