Oct 6, 2010

First test interviews, and elephants along the highway.


We thought that we'd said goodbye to the wild animals as we started our drive back toward Arusha.

But suddenly we spot a whole herd of elephants along the highway. A whole clan, more than 10 of them are here.

We stop to have our lunch, waiting here to see what happens.

This morning we said goodbye to Barbara of ol Mesera. It has become home to us. Go and stay there if you can.

There was also the first concluding interviews of the test. Marias described the HiLight as a revolutionary tool for the Maasai.
-Suffering is finished, as for phonecharging. The best thing is that it is very userfriendly. One button, no wires, anyone can use it. After two days our village was already depending on the one HiLight unit. We charged 8 phones in the first two days! This saved us 12000 TZS = 6 EUR!!

-We had it in our shop during the early evening, and then my boys brought it home to do their homework. Also, during a normal day we use two coca cola bottles of kerosene, costing 2000 TZS = 1 EUR. This we also save.

-I showed the HiLight to the person we buy kerosene from and he was speechless! Already I had people here asking where they can buy it!

Barbaras statement was:
-This is so good so you have to use "seeing is believing". This would lower the cost of diesel but also a way to be environmentally friendly. I would buy the HiLight to my 5 staff and pay half of the cost myself. They could then bring the HiLight home for light and make some money on charging.

1 comment:

Sankar said...

Absolutely amazing input!