HELPING FAMILIES TO PULL THEMSELVES OUT
OF EXTREME POVERTY
ESN Bigger Meals Ltd in partnership
with One World One People
November 2021 Progress Report
"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however,
is that we have the resources to get rid of it.' — Martin Luther
King Jr.
Ayellah, one of our founding directors,
got our head office, which is a small compound in Gulu, Northern
Uganda connected to a mains water supply to get clean tap water.
Now locals come with jerry cans to buy the clean water from the
compound. Before that, they had to walk long distances often to
get dirty water from a river or shallow wells. Some of the young
girls who were being sent to collect water were getting sexually
abused and some ended up getting pregnant. So getting the clean
tap water was an obvious way to protect them and solve a lot of
other problems.
Ayellah sells the water very, very cheap, but he is still able to
make a small profit from doing that. That money is then used to
pay for medical treatment and medicine for the poorest families
who can't afford it by themselves.
In this new century, millions of people in the world’s
poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved and in chains. They
are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free.’
— Nelson Mandela
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Putting in life-changing water pipes. © ESN Bigger
Meals Ltd
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What else are we doing for families living in extreme poverty?
Helping populations living in extreme poverty to protect themselves from climate
change through mass tree planting.
We want to mass-produce seed-balls in Uganda to
help make it easy for school children and people living in rural
places to plant billions of trees throughout Uganda and Africa.
You can learn more about seed-balls here:
To aid that effort we will focus heavily on climate change education.
We have designed a very simple, but effective, single page climate
change education leaflet. Its purpose is to educate Ugandans
who live in rural areas about the dangers of climate change and
greatly motivate them to plant new trees and look after them.
We’re also designing a new and scientifically up-to-date
climate change education program for schools which will focus
mostly on the science behind planting new trees for the future
versus the science of cutting them down unsustainably, which is
deforesting vast areas of Uganda and putting those areas at greater
risk of droughts and floods.
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Tree planting.
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Using Clean Technology to prevent fuel poverty and save lives.
The world’s countries now need to keep global
warming under 1.5° C by 2030 to avoid catastrophic warming.
Meanwhile, approximately three billion people in the world still
cook using open fires or simple stoves using kerosene, wood, charcoal,
coal and other biomass, and as many of them as possible now urgently
need access to alternative clean cooking and water pasteurising
technology. Also, globally, an estimated 4.3 million people (mostly
women and children) die annually from exposure to smoke from charcoal
and biomass, which causes acute respiratory illnesses, cancer,
heart disease and cataracts. Finally, two billion people are thought
to lack access to clean water, which causes an estimated 485,000
diarrhoeal deaths per year due to waterborne parasites and bacterium.
Please see our solar
oven and water pasteuriser we have designed especially to
help solve all of these urgent issues via ESN
Bigger Meals Clean Technology. |
Our solar oven.
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