by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 26, 2014 Simon, the grandfather of Sakhiwe Songhe who helped us build the digester at Sundowner’s Backpackers Lodge, lives on a farm in Swaziland outside Manzini where he has fruit orchards and keeps cattle, geese, and chickens. It is here that...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 30, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 24, 2014 Dr. T.H. Culhane, Rohit Fenn, and Amit Fenn traveled to Swaziland to work with Science in Action winners Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela. Rohit is a young man from India who designed a more efficient toilet and Amit is an evolutionary biologist...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
April 15, 2013 In the spring of 2013, TH Culhane returned to his mother’s native homeland of Iraq to conduct biogas trainings and workshops on sustainability in Baghdad and Erbil. This National Geographic article and this article from the United Nations were...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 30, 2011 33689_10150255635615551_780590550_14848876_6626504_n Image 1 of 3 Trying the biogas cookstove at Sacred Heart...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 30, 2011 At the end of the summer of 2011, Culhane was joined by Ohio State University Urban Planning Professor Charisma Acey and Nigerian-German friend Paul Chido Iwunna on a trip to Nigeria, hosted by former President Obasanjo, to spread the “gospel of...
by Janice Kelsey | Apr 26, 2020 | Africa, Our Projects
August 30, 2011 His Excellency President Oluwasegun Obasanjo graciously invited us to his home to build a biodigester and then brought us around Abeokuta to see his presidential library, farms, industrial operations, plantations and reforestation areas. We also...
