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I was worried at the beginning they were just doing a gloss but the article is pretty accurate. I have been around these folks for decades. A few memories,
by tejtm 8y ago
I was worried at the beginning they were just doing a gloss but the article is pretty accurate. I have been around these folks for decades.
A few memories,
first a typical geeky well meaning do gooder buddy build paraboloid soar collectors and took them down to a village in central America where the locals were extremely pleased with them when he returned a year later he did not see them right away and the local were evasive ... he eventually spotted them doing duty as the benches in the outhouse. The materials he brought were perfect for that.
The next is after they went to Africa, they came to see the people of Central America they had been helping for all those years as middle class in comparison, not really poor because they had never seen really poor.
And the final thought is the author through no fault of their own wrote the piece too early to include Ken Goyer
who worked incessantly making the stoves with less and less till they had a six brick stove one could make for pennies.
He has passed on now, but a childhood friend of his picked up his 'Aid Africa' foundation.
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