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2011 – Year of Humanitarian Engineering

Dec 8

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It is interesting to note that Engineers Australia has declared 2011 as the Year of Humanitarian Engineering:

“a year in which we will recognise the role of engineering in improving quality of life and disaster recovery.
“Our goal is to promote the significance and importance of humanitarian engineering to both the engineering profession and wider community so that humanitarian engineering receives the necessary support in Australia and abroad – and continues to make a difference,” it said.

It seems very relevant to the work of Energy for Opportunity (EFO) – http://www.energyforopportunity.org/

Energy for Opportunity (EFO) Goes Live

Jul 23

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My son Paul is in the process of setting up an organisation that is dedicated to the spread of solar power across West Africa. The organisation (which will become a registered charity) is being set up to implement solar power projects for an environmental organisation (in rural health clinics and schools).  The name of the organisation is Energy For Opportunity (EFO) and they are starting work in three West African countries (Sierra Leone, Benin and Mali).  My elder son Rob is also involved with EFO.

Today they are formally releasing their website: http://www.energyforopportunity.org/

There is also a facebook page and a twitter feed for EFO: http://tinyurl.com/EFOonFacebook and
http://twitter.com/EnergyForOpp