World Challenges
Our sustainability plans for the Grady Grossman School are quite coincidentally at the cutting edge of international development. Sanu Kaji Shresthra, our alternative cooking fuel expert, has just won the runner up prize in World Challenge 2007, sponsored by BBC World, Newsweek and the Shell Corporation for his work introducing biomass briquettes and solar cookers to urban and rural poor in Nepal.
According to Sandra Wijnvelt, who collected the award for Sanu in The Hague, because of the media coverage, Sanu is now getting requests from all over the world to share his expertise. As luck would have it, we’ve been working with Sanu for months, and the Grady Grossman School is the first place outside Nepal he will bring his expertise. Together, we are the first to introduce this low cost, appropriate technology to Cambodia. Makes me feel like we are on the right track.
“Thanks to the exposure in Newsweek and on BBC World Sanu has already received more than a dozen request from countries in Africa, Asia, South America and even in the Pacific of people and organizations who now want to replicate FoST’s technologies, projects and ideas! This month Sanu Kaji Shrestha is invited to Cambodia to teach his skills and share is knowledge with a school. And this is only the beginning…
For us this is a dream come true, because now Sanu can help the Nepalese rural and urban poor, while protecting the environment, but he can share his work with the rest of the world who are facing the same daily struggles and hardships in life. FoST’s solutions to these global problems are so simple and cheap, but highly effective. This small Nepalese organization is becoming an example to many countries in the world.
- Sandra Wijnveldt, GORP Productions”
To see Sandra’s video of Sanu’s work in Nepal Click here.
To read the article about the 3 World Challenge finalists, find a copy of the Dec. 17th issue of Newsweek. (Unfortunately, the article is not posted on their website - argh!)
To see how we apply this technology in Cambodia. Stay tuned to this blog!
We now have 150 students sponsored for 3 years in our sustainability challenge. Keep the donations coming!
