We have just received funding from the Prince of Wales’s Princes Foundation to bring a new eco-friendly technology to Sierra Leone. A group in Kenya have pioneered a community cooker which takes waste and burns at a very high temperature providing heat which was fed to a cooker. We are going to take the technology and turn the heat in…
Archive for October, 2017
Princes Foundation invest in Home Leone
29th October 2017 | Posted in Latest News, Nigel's Blog
BuildAid Gives $45,000 to start the school
28th October 2017 | Posted in Latest News, Nigel's BlogWhat an encouraging day. Ole Stenbakk of BuildAid in Sweden has been with us in Destiny Village for a few days. We have been talking for a while but when he came and saw first hand what we are doing, he and his trustees agreed to build the first 4 classrooms. We had laid out the are in the first…
The Prime Minister sends her encourgement
9th October 2017 | Posted in Nigel's BlogIt was wonderful last week to hear from the UK’s Prime Minister, Theresa May as she wrote to Home Leone to connect us within the British government and civil service. This is so encouraging as we get support from government figures in Sierra Leone, all recognising that the Home Leone slum solution is on to something.
World Habitat Day
4th October 2017 | Posted in Nigel's BlogApparently this week hosted World Habitat Day. As I think around the different habitats people live in it is truly shocking that so many live in places like this and with relatively small resources could live in places like the homes we are building (below). Its perhaps time to switch resources to housing as all the education, jobs, healthcare, water…