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Dig Deep Machu Picchu Expedition

Dig Deep Machu Picchu Expedition . Dig Deep What they do How they do it. The Expedition The challenge Why I’m doing it. Me (YOUR NAME)…. YOUR UNIVERSITY WHERE YOU COME FROM SOME QUICK FACTS ABOUT YOU HOW YOU STARTED VOLUNTEERING FOR DIG DEEP. History – Dig Deep .

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Dig Deep Machu Picchu Expedition

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  1. Dig Deep Machu Picchu Expedition

  2. Dig Deep • What they do • How they do it • The Expedition • The challenge • Why I’m doing it

  3. Me (YOUR NAME)… • YOUR UNIVERSITY • WHERE YOU COME FROM • SOME QUICK FACTS ABOUT YOU • HOW YOU STARTED VOLUNTEERING FOR DIG DEEP

  4. History – Dig Deep • Registered Charity No. 1121493 • Provide sustainable solutions to problems faced by communities in Kenya • Been running 4 years: • Clean Sustainable Water Supply to Over 25,000 People • Renewable Cooking Gas Supplies to 5 Schools and Orphanages • Have done this by working alongside these Communities, Local Government and other Charities • Committed to low running costs so they can do more with your money

  5. WHAT YOU WILL MAKE HAPPEN

  6. Water Projects • Why? • More than half of Kenya's 31 million people lack access to any kind of safe water • Tens of thousands of Kenyans—many of them children—die each year due to the lack of safe water

  7. What would you rather?

  8. Many people have no choice…

  9. …but with your help they can

  10. Boreholes

  11. Shallow Wells

  12. Rain water harvesting

  13. The importance of clean water.… • Health: diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, amoebae and trachoma are drastically • Gender Empowerment: women and girls no longer have to walk up to 12 miles to collect water. • Education: the fact that girls no longer have to travel for hours to collect water means that they are able to receive an education. • Economic: better able to sustain their livestock through drought.

  14. Renewable Energy = Sustainability No Running Costs Lowest Possible Maintenance Costs Environmentally Sustainable Local Ownership

  15. Case StudyEndonyo Rinka Primary School • There are 700 students currently attending - plans to expand to cater for 1,000 students. • Local Community just built two new dormitories and a canteen. • These now mean that the school has boarding facilities for 200 students (50% of whom are girls). • However, these new dormitories were unable to open due to lack of water access.

  16. Video Interview with Jonathan OlKuman • Lived in Endonyo Rinka his whole life • Has been chairman of the school for just over 10 years • To see short video of interview follow this YouTube link • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5-xOZb_JyI

  17. Biogas Projects • What is a biogas digester? • turns manure into a renewable cooking gas supply through capturing methane • also produce organic fertilizer • no maintenance or running costs

  18. How far would you want to carry this?

  19. Why biogas? • Health –no longer have to inhale the fumes from fire wood. • Gender Empowerment– women and girls no longer have to carry heavy firewood for miles on their backs. • Education – the fact that girls no longer have to travel for hours to collect fire wood means that they are able to receive an education • Economic – large sums of money are saved every year by minimising the need for firewood consumption and providing organic fertiliser to grow additional food. • Environmental • Deforestation is a huge problem in Kenya • Main effect is the disruption of the water cycle • Biogas is carbon neutral - the methane would be released into the atmosphere naturally through decomposition if it wasn't used in the digester

  20. HOW DIG DEEP WORKS • Work with local partners • E.g. our patron is Agnes Pareyio, first female Maasai councillor and UN Person of the Year 2005 • With withLocal communities • they are involved in every aspect of the project – from initial planning to long term maintenance • Projects constructed using local technology, materials and labour • Is very cost effective • Benefits local economy

  21. Low Running Costs • Staffed almost entirely by volunteers – will only have 1 paid member of staff • In UK - no offices • In Kenya - live and travel in the same way as local people

  22. MACHU PICCHUThe Fabled Lost City of the Incas

  23. The Expedition • 22 Sheffield Uni Students • Aiming to raise £17,000 for Dig Deep’s next project • My personal target is to raise £1480 for Dig Deep and a further £1480 to cover my costs to do the expedition.

  24. Its tough… • Will be trekking at over 4,200m • Altitude sickness… • Walking from the deepest canyons to cloud forest

  25. Can you help me hit my target to make Dig Deep’s next project happen? Thank you

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