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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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