KIJIJI PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Water is fundamental to life on earth. It’s also a key ingredient for our project site. Several of our planned projects must have water before we can begin. The living fence needs water to grow. The forest needs irrigation to get established. The garden needs irrigation to grow. We need water for making compressed earth blocks that we can use to build our structures. We need water for people to drink – clean, safe water. 

We evaluated several possible sources – rain water, well water, and lake water. Our site is on the shore of the largest lake in Africa – Lake Victoria. We will collect rainwater eventually, but we need structures first. Pumping water from the lake seemed like the easiest and most cost effective solution. It can be used untreated for most of our needs, and a modest amount can be treated for human consumption – with sand filters and/or solar distilling.

In all our designs we seek to understand local materials/skills availability. We search for cost effective solutions that have
already been developed and tested. We assess the sustainability of the solution. We hope that some of the solutions can be embraced by the community and used to address similar issues in the area. We hope that people will embrace these ideas and even find business opportunities for themselves.