2022-01-26 Spouts Water Filter Visit - Purifaaya
Ceramic water filters are made in Kampala, Uganda by the Spouts Company. They produce the Purifaaya filter in 3 models. I had emailed...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 1 min
2022-01-24 Sodium Hydroxide Soap Making - The Cold Process Method
Wood ash soap is a very cheap way to produce soap, but it does not always produce the same quality soap every time. Sometimes the soap is...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 1 min
2022-01-23 Visited Women’s Group who Earn Their Living Keeping Bees
GFI was introduced to many of the women’s projects. A large group of women in the Yumbe area are keeping bees and selling the bees wax...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 4 min
2022-01-19 - 2022-01-22 Discussion with Women’s Groups in Yumbe
1. Discussion and Feasibility Study for establishing a Filter Production Site in Yumbe The women’s groups in Yumbe would like to...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 1 min
2022-01-18 Trip to Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Uganda
Just a few kilometers to the north of Yumbe is one of the largest refugee settlements in the world. It is comprised of over 270,000 South...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 1 min
2022-01-16 Sanitary napkin sewing
Many rural girls in African countries drop out of school when they reach the age of menstruation. There are little to no facilities in...
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Thomas Schael
- Feb 1
- 2 min
2022-01-13 Arriving in Yumbe, Uganda
The district of Yumbe is a very rural area of Uganda located in the north-western corner of Uganda where South Sudan, Uganda, and the...
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jmally1149
- Jan 16
- 1 min
2022-01-16 Teaching in Uganda
The Executive Director of Good Foundations International, Jennifer Mally, is in northern Uganda teaching the women of a local community...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Nov 28 - Dec 5, 2021 - Last Kenya update
November 28th We flew from Nairobi to Kisumu and checked into a hotel in the area. November 29th In the morning of November 29th Kista,...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Nov 24-27, 2021 - Kenya Trip
November 24th Our Visit to Kenya Begins… PfP team flew out of the Kigali airport early in the morning on November 24th and arrived in...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 3 min
Nov 21-23, 2021 - Kiln, Congo and many pictures
The PfP filter team, along with the Rwanda team, finished up the kiln building project in the community of Masaka. On the last day of...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 2 min
The kiln is coming together
We are still working in the village in Rwanda, helping Edward with his filter factory. Today we finished the sides of the kiln and...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Nov 15, 2021 - The kiln is half built
As of today, November 15, the test kiln is half built. The community gathers each day to see our kiln building project and many people...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Nov 14, 2021 - Completing the foundation
On Sunday, November 14, we returned to the kiln site and laid the second layer of bricks to complete the foundation. We added the...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Nov 13, 2021 - Making test tiles in Rwanda
On Saturday, November 13, a group of us made test tiles from 8 different clay deposits around the area. We mixed the different clays with...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Nov. 12, 2021 - Our first days back in Africa
We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya and stayed a few days in quarantine before flying to Kigali, Rwanda. Once in Kigali, we met with Edward...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Potters for Peace Trip to India
February 25 – March 10 Workshop on Household Water Treatment and Storage National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 2 min
Working hard against the odds
The entire team is working hard and making steady progress. Unfortunately, we have met some major delays with equipment, mainly the...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
A work in progress
With much of the Team out in the field delivering and setting up Bio-sand filters today, much of the day was spent on small prep tasks...
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jmally1149
- Jan 8
- 1 min
Field trip to Bislig
The team took advantage of a bottleneck in the clay drying by taking a trip to the site of a future filter project in Bislig. The site...
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