Tag: Kenya
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Handmade craft from Kibera
We have lots of these wonderful cards (in the UK) now, if you’d like to buy some – either Christmas cards or every day note cards – 16 different designs on blue, green, red or white paper. All handmade and signed on the back by the artists who are all residents of Kibera in Nairobi,…
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Extending a productive day
1 year ago, AVIF sent 8x Pro 300 solar lamps to Hamza. We knew Hamza from a previous volunteering project. Hamza was able to set up a small business buying and selling these solar lamps from SunKing, part of the Green Light Planet company. Hamza checked in yesterday to tell me how much he was…
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Almost there!!!!
Fantastic news, out of the blue. Since writing in February, I just heard from our amazing volunteers that they’ve almost managed to raise all the funds needed to put the XPRIZE-winning adiabatic water unit into Nkiito. The main adiabatic unit is available now from Island Sky and we’re now collecting quotes and negotiating discounts to…
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Out of thin air
The UK just witnessed the hottest February day on record. We hit over 20C, in Wales, even before the solstice. I’m sat in my garden thinking up this post right now, soaking up the sun that barely gets over the roof, its angle is still so low! Meanwhile, in Kenya, our friends are really struggling.…
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Synergy
I wrote about “AI Crossover” some months ago after reading Jeff Clune’s paper. Since then we’ve had the Second Frontier Development Lab with NASA & the SETI Institute, which included Adam Cobb, a PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, who has carried out work tracking lion footprints with artificial intelligence [paper]. I…