Edu Afrique

Image credit: Ndudu by Fafa In the early hours of the day, when the compound has been swept, the face and body washed, and the pearly whites brushed, a long familiar urge can now be addressed. Breakfast. You walk down the street to the koko seller. Or perhaps for you, it's the Waakye seller. Or yet others, the Gari-and-beans serving is just what you crave. Then it starts:  You get your Koko/Waakye/Gari-and-beans. The seller places these items in a clear plastic bag. It's so convenient that you think nothing of it. You came to buy food with your younger brother or sister or friend, so you order some food for them as well. The food seller places these in a separate clear plastic bag. You remember that mother also requested some food, so you order a serving just for her. The food seller works so efficiently that it's almost mesmerising to watch. She places each of the clear plastic-bound food into it's own perfectly sized black plastic bag. Then with the intention of makin...

Our People Edu Afrique currently comprises nine volunteers who are passionate about using their skills, experience and time to support Edu Afrique in its mission to improve water, sanitation and hygiene access in Ghana. Dr Pierre Faou Co-founder and Project Advisor (Australia) Mrs D. Adwoa Agyapomaa Co-founder and Online Communications Manager (Australia)   Dr Andrea Giordano Co-founder, and Media & Publications Manager (Barcelona Mr Joachim Danbur Project Coordinator (Ghana)  Dr Cintia Martinez Co-founder and Communications Advisor (Australia) Ms Nyasha Dzingai Secretary and Fundraising Advisor (Australia) Mr Kwame Osei-Amo Treasurer and Project Coordinator, Australia  Mr Kwabena Oppong Bediako Project Coordinator, Ghana (Ashanti reg...

We gratefully acknowledge the following support Jane Turner - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Najoua Lalaoui - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Bianca Cataldo - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Edward Chew - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Anuratha Sakthianandeswaren Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Shan Li - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Jeff Smith - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Jenny Thompson - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Bhupinder Pal - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Michelle Palmieri - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Diep Chau - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Natasha Silke - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Aleksandra Bankovacki - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Emma Petri - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Gabriela Brumatti - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Crystal Stivala - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Catherine McLean - Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

WHO WE ARE We are EduAfrique a not-for-profit group committed to creating an equitable world in which everyone has access to basic human needs. We contribute to bringing clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs to communities in Ghana, Africa. We believe access to WASH infrastructure and services is a prerequisite for changing and lifting communities out of a cycle of disease and poverty.      WHAT WE DO Thanks to donations from people just like you, we partner with communities in Ghana to provide better access to WASH. In 2013 we conducted a 6-month health promotion program in Asamang, Ghana. Through this work, our eyes were opened to the social and economic consequences of lack of WASH in the realms of education and health. Following a set of fundraising events in 2016, we were able to partner with a community in the West of Ghana - called Bronikrom - in January 2017 to construct a composting toilet for the community. The ...

The toilets you helped us build at Bronikrom, in the West of Ghana has recieved the final cosmetic touches! EduAfrique will stay in touch with the community to educate them comprehensively on keeping sanitation-related diseases and deaths at bay. Thank you, AWESOME PEOPLE, for contributing to this🙏🙏🙏 The project was completed in Bronikrom in the West of Ghana. The community provided the labour and EduAfrique covered the material cost of the building. The project was managed by Ramatu Soaley, Joachim Danbur, Kwame Osei-Amo and Kwabena Asare Bediako. Due to the community not having had any skilled labourers, a builder from Asamang (a small town in the South of Ghana) was hired to help.

Thank you for giving the gift of dignity.  Your donation will help bring improved sanitation and hygiene to a community in Ghana. All donations help cover the cost of materials, training materials, labor,  and transportation. All our team are volunteers so 100% of donations go directly to projects.  We would love you to join us to make it happen this year! (But, if you only give to such programs once a year, and you've already contributed to another program, then please, think of us next time.) Account name: EduAfrique  Bank: Commonwealth Bank of Australia  BSB: 063349  Account No.: 1025 1159  Please use your name and email in the description so we can thank you in writing.

Fundraising love: Converting dreams into reality. A big thank you to everybody who attended our fundraising night and contributed to help EduAfrique in its mission.  Thanks to this event we have been able to built a 6-cubicle composting toilet in a farming community in the West of Ghana. Pictures to come soon!

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credit: @WatSanCollabCou What's sanitation without handwashing facilities? And, it doesn't have to be anything fancy either. 3 pieces of wood, an empty plastic bottle along with  These Instructions  are all you need. Yes, really, it *is* that simple.

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Did you know? If you get #cholera, it means "you've eaten faeces" (Dr Hagan, Ghana, via @InformGhana). A lot of the sicknesses in Ghana are due to us not getting rid of our 'private' properly. The contents of 'private' include: parasites, viruses, bacteria and worm eggs - all can cause severe disease in humans. Make your own toilet:   http://momwithaprep.com/potty/ http://humanurehandbook.com/humanure_toilet.html http://tinyurl.com/lctmgwm http://sunnyscope.com/diy-camping-toilet/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ioycfDNJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOOUxa4_K1g Deuteronomy 23:12-1412 "Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will n...

Continued from:  Stop Playing The Game Without Knowing The Rules At first the phenomena of nature were roughly divided into classes, like heat, electricity, mechanics, magnetism, properties of substances, chemical phenomena, light or optics , x-rays, nuclear physics, gravitation, meson phenomena, etc . Read   more:  Continue Reading

photo credit:   http://tinyurl.com/l5v3lx9 Continued from:  What Keeps You Up at Night? What do we mean by “understanding” something? We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to  watch  the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules.  The rules of the game  are what we mean by  fundamental physics . credit:  http://feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_02.html#Ch1-

Continued from:  Everything is made out of this. Everything The things with which we concern ourselves in science appear in (many) forms, and with a multitude of attributes. For example, if we stand on the shore and look at the sea, we see the water , the waves breaking , the foam , the sloshing motion of the water , the sound , the air , the winds and the clouds , the sun and the blue sky , and light ; there is sand and there are rocks of various hardness and permanence, color and texture. There are animals and seaweed , hunger and disease , and the observer on the beach; there may be even happiness and thought . Any other spot in nature has a similar variety of things and influences. It is always as complicated as that, no matter where it is. Curiosity demands that we ask questions, that we try to put things together and try to understand this multitude of aspects as perhaps resulting from the action of a relatively small number of elemental things and forces acting i...

Continued from:   http://tinyurl.com/pm6q2pg The atoms (of water) are  1  or  2 × 10 − 8  cm in radius. Now  10 − 8  cm is called an  angstrom  (just as another name), so we say they are 1 or 2 angstroms (Å) in radius. Another way to remember their size is this: if an apple is magnified to the size of the earth, then the atoms in the apple are approximately the size of the original apple. Now imagine this great drop of water with all of these jiggling particles stuck together and tagging along with each other. The water keeps its volume; it does not fall apart, because of the attraction of the molecules for each other. If the drop is on a slope, where it can move from one place to another, the water will flow, but it does not just disappear—things do not just fly apart—because of the molecular attraction. Now the jiggling motion is what we represent as  heat : when we increase the temperature, we increase the motion. If w...

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