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VP Bilal visits

Observing off-the-grid electrification Tanzania’s recently retired Vice President, Dr. Bilal, came to see our off-the-grid electrification of Maasai bomas. He visited a boma on a rainy night to see just how much difference lighting makes for the people. Two days later he visited a large boma in the Rift Valley.

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Stove design updates

New stove design updates In a typical Maasai household, the ICSEE stove models distributed from April of 2011 through August, 2015 use approximately 40 kilograms of wood a week. We are now installing our newest design. It is well worth introducing for new features adding to its durability and function. To

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Partnership

Training now in progress We are excited to bring our Project to the village of Alailelai. Located north of the Ngorongoro crater on the escarpment west of the Rift Valley, Alailelai’s remote location presents challenges. But it is a natural and perfect place to expand. The Maasai there need to

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Eye health

“I saw first hand the impact of your Stoves in the mountains above Monduli–what a blessing your technology is for Africa–MURAKOZE! ” — Getting the smoke out of the house is not just about lung health. The women are glad their chronic eye irritation is gone too. We are very

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Chicken and egg?

The women of the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project are deeply committed. They love the work and the feelings of new power and freedom that comes from their participation. To determine and achieve their own goals as Maasai women, they formed a new group last spring. Called the Maasai Pastoralist

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New villages and new stoves

New stoves in new villages Brimming with energy as the area’s newly-trained stove experts, thirty women of Mbuyuni and Meserani villages are installing stoves.Their efforts keep our manufacturing staff busy fabricating fireboxes and delivering bricks and building materials. Our new stove model will soon be in 255 Maasai homes in

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Corn flour mill

Saturday will be the big flour-grinding day at the  second mill of our Project. It will be in Emairete, a village of Moduli Juu, well located at the site of the big Saturday Maasai market up there. Focusing on organizing and empowering women, the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project has

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News at Maasai

Maasai Stoves and Solar is getting an updated website that will be coming soon. Currently it is being rehauled by the web designer Meagan O’Brien who is testing out it’s links to social media networks like facebook. More is coming soon.

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