Awesome blog! I have a question/comment for you. I'm taking a DE course, Intro to Environmental Stewardship (which you may have taken too), and one of the books, Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown, makes some connections between environmental conditions (drought, soil degradation, draining aquifers, etc) and poverty. Its easy to read about it and say, yeah.. that makes sense, but I'm interested in hearing (and pictures) of what you have seen, especially at the village level and personal accounts.
hey Kyla, like tony, i am very interested in environmental conditions in developing countries...anything notable that has shocked you, or humbled you...? i know it is the developed countries that are the biggest contributers to such thing as global warming and countries of the west use the most resources and we experience those issues daily here in canada, but anything that you have to say about environmental conditions where you are in rural africa? thanks kyla, and keep on inspiring! lots of love, kim
The Malawi team meets for the first time in Calgary during the EWB National Conference
Introduction
Kyla Firby
I am one of 9 Canadian university students participating in Engineers Without Borders' Junior Fellowship program in Malawi this summer. I am currently in my 4th year of Environmental Engineering at the University of Guelph. For the first 2.5 months I was working with a local organisation called Bwanje Environment and Rural Development Organisation (BERDO), which is located in a rural area of central Malawi. I am now working near Nkhotakota on wastewater treatment for a cassava processing plant.
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Hey Kyla
Awesome blog!
I have a question/comment for you. I'm taking a DE course, Intro to Environmental Stewardship (which you may have taken too), and one of the books, Plan B 2.0 by Lester Brown, makes some connections between environmental conditions (drought, soil degradation, draining aquifers, etc) and poverty. Its easy to read about it and say, yeah.. that makes sense, but I'm interested in hearing (and pictures) of what you have seen, especially at the village level and personal accounts.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Tony
hey Kyla,
like tony, i am very interested in environmental conditions in developing countries...anything notable that has shocked you, or humbled you...? i know it is the developed countries that are the biggest contributers to such thing as global warming and countries of the west use the most resources and we experience those issues daily here in canada, but anything that you have to say about environmental conditions where you are in rural africa?
thanks kyla, and keep on inspiring!
lots of love,
kim
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