The Q´ero Nation, a community of people who live in the remote Andes of Peru, are currently facing large problems as they are lacking basic services like like clean drinking water, electricity, education, sanitary facilities and access to health care. Infant mortality between the ages of 0 and 5 is high at 47 percent and [...]
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University of Michigan’s BLUElab heads down to Nicaragua
Posted in Nicaragua, biodigestor, technologies, university partnership on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Michigan’s Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory’s (BLUElab) Biogas Project focuses on the use of anaerobic biodigesters to recover energy from waste. This group is advised by Dr. Steven Skerlos and is a team of undergraduates and graduates from different disciplines that do work on the project as an extracurricular commitment. The group’s [...]
David Hauth: The Challenges and Successes of Development Work
Posted in Nicaragua, technologies, volunteer on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Hauth, an intern for Green Empowerment, is working in Nicaragua with AsoFenix on a number of renewable energy projects. He shares his thoughts about the work that he has completed, the challenges he has faced and the success that he has experienced.
As I write this blog I find myself in the middle of my [...]
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