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Monday, October 02, 2006

various updates

Well its been over a month since I last made a posting.... naughty naughty boy!

The methane process has slowed down as Gary still hasn't copied the 400 page report done by Maureen but he has given a report that shows that extracting methane is a very very tricky process that would best and safely be done at one site rather than at each pit latrine. Methane is explosive...

We spent the morning at the Arts for social change programme at CIDA City Campus on Saturday where we enagged a group of would be cartoonists in how to draw cartoons...it was intereseting especially finding out that few of the youth know who Hitler was...

Takalani will be working more closely with the Mamelodi Extension 17 group to establish the feeding scheme. He will also be setting-up a recycling project along the lines that Fellow Kim Kieser has developed. Finally Takalni will be doing some preliminary mapping work on the Real maps Africa Project. All this as well as the electrical repair business he runs currently...

Ronnie Maatjie who runs a recording studio got paid out some money from the Road Accident fund and bought himself a car. So now he has wheels.

Imet with a group of about seven McKinsey consultants to discuss financing options for the various nano-corporations we work with. They came up with some ggod ideas as well as contacts. Hoping they will work on this stuff a bit.

The work with Afrenaus and Fellow Veronica Khoza is going well. We developed a draft business plan for the college which is due to start next year.

We also secured a donation of books from St. Augustine College for the Afrenaus college. This wasw greatly appreciated.

A fellow in Bangladesh, Shamsun Nahar runs a school for entrepreneurs and she has expressed interest in a joint venture...

Otherwise life rolls along at a its usual gentle pace.

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