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De:	Ben Couture [ Profil ]
Sujet:	aids orphans village
Envoyé:	Sep 28th, 2006 - 13:54:27

	The following is pasted from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/1635 ----------------------------------------- Here is a story from Bill Moore of EVworld: "Father D'Agostino Eco-Village Becomes Reality Friday, I had the opportunity to interview Father Angelo D'Agostino, a medical doctor and Jesuit priest who has spent much of his life in the impoverished parts of the world. His most recent stint aboard as been in Kenya where he founded the Nyumbani ("my home" in Swahili). The village is designed to house 1000 orphans who have lost both their parents to AIDS. The exact number of AIDS-related orphans in Africa is estimated between 12 and 25 million. Patterned after the Boys & Girls Town system of individual "family homes" here in Omaha, a surviving grandparent or elder will supervise and mentor each "family" of 8-10 children who will be housed in homes built from locally-made adobe-like bricks. The idea behind the complex stems from a book Father Angelo and I have both read, "Gaviotas -- A Village to Reinvent the World." Part of the plan is to educate the children and provide them with a trade, one of which includes the planting, nurturing, harvesting and processing of the Jatropha Curcas tree from which can be processed a biodiesel oil. There are already 400 acres of Jatropha under cultivation at Nyumbani, which is about a hour east of Nairobi. What the village doesn't use for its own power and other uses, the government has agreed to buy for its electric power generators in the northern part of the country. This is really an inspiring interview, which we'll have online later this week. In the meantime, if you want to learn more, checkout www.nyumbani.org Until next time, stay plugged into EVWorld..." I highly recommend EVworld for those interested in EcoTransportation with a technical, enviro/eco and social viewpoint. Cheers Rick Richard Nelson solaroof (at) ... http://www.solaroof.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solaroof http://www.solaroof.org/wiki/SolaRoofGuy/Welcome Together we can BUILD a sustainable future ------------------------------------------- Replies at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/1636 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/1637 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalvillages/message/1638

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