You can't read if you don't have light, we gave our literacy graduates a solar light in Kenya

davidsands

dave sands

NickOttens

Hi @davidsands, let me move this into the Education & Learning category.

Can you tell us more?

davidsands

Our project (toothpickproject.org) involved mitigating a real problem for subsistence farmers in Kenya. The problem was a serious yield reducing parasitic weed, Striga (witchweed). As we trained subsistence farmers, who tended our research plots of the toothpickproject.org, it became clear that the best graduation present for subsistence farmers simultaneously trained to read and to solve their agricultural problems, was solar powered lanterns, so that they could be further empowered by reading. Check out the toothpickproject.org. Dave Sands davidsands41@yahoo.com

NickOttens

Thanks, @davidsands! I hope it's OK if I share the video here you shared with me, so others can see? (You just copy-paste the YouTube URL in your post, and then the community automatically embeds it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD38kjJqyiE

mattymatt

Hi @davidsands! it sounds like a amazing thing that your doing for their communities. and thank you for the video @NickOttens, it was extremely informative.

davidsands

If you wish to know where we are and where we are going let us know
davidsands41@yahoo.com
Claire Baker
toothpickprojectinfo@gmail.com

mattymatt

Thank you @davidsands ! Ill shoot you over a email now to get some more information