Day 20: Today we met with Don Simpson at the International Livestock Research Institute where Don is carrying out a workshop. It was very fortunate because we needed some contacts at that institute for the LIME project and having Don introducing us made things very easy. In the Evening we met again with Don, Trevor Biju and the rest of the CARE team at the Fairview hotel were we discussed the two CARE projects we are curently working on. Towards the end of the Biju, Trevor’s wife (Who incidentally is related to Mo Kenyatta daughter of Jomo Kenyatta) explained the project that she is trying to launch in the slum of Nairobi. A friend of her has developed this very simple machine that makes briquettes out of dry leaves for burning in the stove used by the people of Kibera, the biggest slum of Africa. The problem is that they lack the business experience and venture capital to launch this project that might benefit women at the bottom the pyramid. She was basically testing the possibility of having CARE involved in this. I personally am very interested in this and would like to find out more because it could even be that we work on this feasibility study during our last month in Nairobi, that way we could even achieve our NVP since at the moment we are just working as “consultants”. I told Biju to drop me an email so we can meet properly and discuss the way forward. By the sound of it could be a very interesting project where the women make and sell this cheap source of fuel as an alternative to more expensive charcoal. This business would generate income to women who earn less that 2$ a day and would help the poor who generally pay high price for very inefficient source of energies.