This morning we visited the neigbouring village of Sandai. It was a long underdeveloped track which led to the village. One, we were to learn, upon which the local women and children had to travel for many kilometers to reach Bogoria to obtain water. In the village we were kindly greeted by a welcoming party as the chief finalised his prior business. Soon we were invited to the chief's office to meet with teachers and local VIPs. We subsequently held talks about the various uses of solar including lighting, mobile phone charging and water pumping. We also demnostrated the HYMini but unfortunately, since the Nokia attachment wasn't present the chief sadly could not charge his mobile phone! Next time we need to bring all attachments. We discussed (a common theme emerging from this trip) the need to educate people as to the use of solar before its potential can be realised. With this in mind we will discuss the possibilities of our local champion teaming up with the primary school we were invited to pilot these ideas with. It is the intention that these ideas will dovetail with ideas developing out of the post Science for Sustainability (S4S) work. That is, the S4S game, localised to Bogoria is further contextualised in terms of Global Warming/Climate Change 'glocalised' effects which are researched by students using renewable powered learning technologies. In other words we are trying to join the dots between local needs and knowledge and global happenings so that people start to appreciate the wider picture. Currently this is emerging as lacking in this locale.
There is much more work to do and probably, as the chief states, we would need to collate all of these ideas and associated data into some kind of proposal. It would, however, seem that a few formerly disparate strands are now beginning to be drawn together...
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