Kathy Cooper, a MAP Fellow at SIBAT in the Philippines, has now been in the Philippines for about a month. SIBAT is a NGO focused on supplying the technical know-how for wind turbine installations and micro-hydropower facilities that provide electricity to rural villages. SIBAT also has a sustainable agriculture program that they integrate with their [...]
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Relief Efforts After Typhoon Ondoy: An Update from Kathy Cooper
Posted in the Philippines on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Installing a Hydraulic Ram Pump System in the Community of Herminal; a Partnership Project between AIDFI and Green Empowerment
Posted in ram pumping, technologies, the Philippines on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a report describing the development and installation of a hydraulic ram pump system in the community of Herminal. It provides details about the community and the background of the project. While this project is not fully completed the community members are very pleased to have a steady source of water near Herminal.
Background: [...]
Working with AIDFI in the Philippines
Posted in technologies, the Philippines on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The blog below is written by Wendy Phelps, a US Citizen teaching English in Japan with the JET program who spent her alternative spring break learning more about the Philippines with the Green Empowerment partner, AID Foundation Inc., on the central island of Negros in May 2009.
Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Incorporated (AIDFI) was a wonderful [...]

