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WEST AFRICA ALLIANCE (WAA)
GLOBAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
WEST AFRICA ALLIANCE
West Africa is the western most region in the African continent. For more information on West Africa please visit here
The WAA will focus on:
- Seeing long term teams multiplied in West Africa.
- Taking teams of professionals to work on projects.
- Working alongside existing teams to finish current projects and to start new ones.
- Seeing churches establish in the region.
- Visiting teams on the frontline and bringing back ideas and resources to churches to make them aware of the needs of the people groups.
- Using photography to create awareness of the needs of the people.
Projects
- Mission House School - Some of our frontline workers have a school in The Gambia where they teach kids whose parents cannot afford to send them to school. They have been renting a couple rooms on a compound to do this but we have been assisting them in completing a school building where they will be able to help many more kids.
Currently we are looking for:
- Short and long term teachers to teach in the primary school.
- Teams to help with the completion of the primary school.
- Water pump - In the water pump project we are using car parts and easily assessable materials to make and maintain affordable pumps. In mid November, 2009 we started a project working on a fuel pump to assist the local people with their gardens. The pump experiments were a great success! We connected the fuel pump to a car battery and solar panel and lower it in to a 10 meter well, the pump pushed out a litre per min which gave us 6,000 litres in 10 hours which is more than what you would need for a small garden. We are currently working on improving the first pump.
- Bio-char Stove - a charcoal-type material produced by cooking organic matter in a low-oxygen environment (pyrolysing). It holds great potential for carbon mitigation. The manufacturing process releases volatile gases that can be made into liquid fuels or used to generate power or heat. The resulting char supplies a range of fertility-boosting nutrients when spread on soils. Also the molecular structure of bio-char makes it resistant to decomposition by micro-organisms, so that it fixes carbon for very long time periods.
- Water desalination - Water is desalinated in order to convert salt water to fresh water so it is suitable for human consumption or irrigation. In a small village in Senegal the water is too salty to drink (the people drink it anyway) or have crops, so we are working on a system that converts salt water to fresh water in any remote area with little or no electricity.
TRIPS
- The Bio-char Stove project in The Gambia
Dates: January 4th-18th, 2011
If you would like to go on this trip or for more details please contact us: info@uofngta.ca
Opportunities include: helping with the bio-char stove; doing prayer walks through the village and encouraging the frontline team.
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