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Attachab

Submitted by nikki on 13 September 2010 - 12:34am

Activities at Attachab proved the focus of this week’s UK-Nigeria online meeting. And the subject looks set to top the agenda for the next month as a result of the news that John has found an ideal site - complete with the magnificently-named river Wonderful which flows through it. Yet while the vision is in place and progress is being made, the speed at which work proceeds is hampered by a lack of funds. The team are looking at proposals concerning permaculture, climate change and sustainable livelihoods. To date Attachab has an ecodome (probably the first in Nigeria), a compressed...

Technical Talk

Submitted by nikki on 6 September 2010 - 4:00pm

This week’s online meeting began with a testing technical question. As regular participants will know, we “meet” virtually every week using the Skype networking programme. However, since most cyber cafes lack this facility, the query was raised as to whether we might exclude people by adopting the same format for our monthly First Thursday meetings. It was therefore suggested that using Yahoo Messenger might be a better option. However the vote from the Fantsuam Foundation was that Skype remained the preferable format for them as well as being easier to log into, it was the most effective alternative for sending...

Attachab: A new appointment !

Submitted by nikki on 15 August 2010 - 6:01pm

Attachab Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community One of the benefits of using a Skype typed conversation for the weekly UK-Nigeria meetings was demonstrated this week. For despite not being present (and because I was invited in my absence) I have been able to look at the archive, catch up with the news from Fantsuam Foundation, and consequently write this blog! Firstly, the Dadamac team welcomed Jim, the new VSO volunteer. Jim will be helping John Dada develop the site at Attachab over the next 6 months. Having visited Attachab and met the village chief on Monday, Jim told us all...

Good news really does come in threes!

Submitted by nikki on 7 May 2010 - 11:28pm

There was a lively and informative skype (typed) chat this week at the Wednesday's weekly online meeting between the Nigerian and the UK Team. There was indeed triple good news this week The UK were delighted to learn that the JAWS training at Fantsuam Academy is provisionally scheduled to start 28 June. Cecily, a VSO at Fantsuam Foundation also kindly emailed the UK the article written by Reuben Buhari, a reporter for This Day. Fantsuam Foundation had received a full page and with a photo! (If I can find an online link to the article from THISDAY's website I will...

Jatropha

Submitted by Pamela on 11 February 2010 - 11:32pm

Hi Vijay Sorry you could not make it to February First Thursday, but I know you are very busy at present. You would have met some interesting people including members of the Dadamac team in Nigeria. It would have been interesting to compare some of the eco-developments there, such as growing Jatrohpa, with what is happening in India I mention Jatropha because at our UK-Nigeria meeting yesterday we were told that "we are raising a nursery of 2000 jathropha palnts we intend to transplant when the rains begin" Regarding Jatropha in India, I have just seen this article which says...

First Thursday - sustainable villages, the workshop, etc

Submitted by Pamela on 2 February 2010 - 1:41am

Thursday February 4th is the First Thursday of the month. So here's my invitation to join me in the worknets chat room, and my usual thanks to Andrius Kulikauskas , director of Minciu Sodas for making it possible. All being well I will be around for an hour starting - 13.00 Nigerian time, 15,00 Kenyan time, 12.00 GMT.

Learning about Permaculture

Submitted by nikki on 29 January 2010 - 8:19am

A continued focus of our weekly online UK/Nigeria meetings has been the subject of permaculture. This was not a word or principle I had come across often in my day-to-day life in South London. However over the past two years I have been lucky enough to begin to learn more about it - and to appreciate the importance of designing the proposed model farm at Attachab along the principles it dictates. Even as a relative newcomer to the discipline, I recognise it is the most practical and commonsense way to proceed. Not only does it make ecological and financial sense...

First Wednesday Meeting of 2010

Submitted by nikki on 15 January 2010 - 8:43am

Wow, what a start to the New Year! Although it had been a few weeks since our last UK-Nigeria online meeting (due to connectivity issues and holidays) I was quickly reminded again how thrilled I am to be involved with this dynamic group of people. Although these meetings with Fantsuam are arranged for the same time and day each week, they are never routine, dull or a chore. As this was our first for a while, there was a lot to catch up on. Despite (yet another) loss of connectivity and time lags, we enjoyed another productive session - and,...

Fish Farming

Submitted by nikki on 11 January 2010 - 10:22pm

Until recently my experience with fish had been limited, to say the least. In all honesty, it had consisted of watching my children win goldfish at a fair - and the occasional cod and chips supper! However over the last 18 months the subject of fish farming has captured my attention and I have been lucky enough to have my eyes opened to the many and varied challenges involved. (Although I'll be the first to admit I still have a great deal more to learn!) I first heard about fish farming in 2008 during one of our weekly online meetings...

Issues ref Developing-Country Livestock

Submitted by Pamela on 17 December 2009 - 11:03pm

Hi Vijay Given your interest in food security and wider issues surrounding it you may like to see this video about Climate Food and Developing-Country Livestock Farmers ILRI film: In my mind it connects with John's vision for a model farm development at Attachab Eco-village and why it is important to develop models of good practice and effective ways to share them. Of course at Fantusam Foudation many initiatives are inter-related, so this is also relevant to the idea Cicely was promoting for helping farmers through the Internet services provided by Zittnet . (You may remember this idea and our...

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