Treadle Pump Treadle Pump (If I can make a treadle pump, you can make a treadle pump too!)

This melodic-mnemonic is a music video intended to introduce the concept of the treadle pump. It also demonstrates our latest Solar CITIES initiative training Africans in diaspora (particularly Nigerians, like Paul Chido Iwunna, our Nigerian-German colleague featured in the video) in "Green-collar jobs and sustainable development technology" here in Germany and then traveling to our mother-countries to share the knowledge and technologies with our homeland communities. In this case Chido and I and Dr. Charisma Acey (American professor of Urban Planning married to a Nigerian) traveled to Port Harcourt with Chido's mother to build a treadle pump with local craftsmen for the family home so they no longer have to pull water from the borehole with a small bucket and a rope. It is our intention to involve many more Africans and Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants here in Germany and abroad so that we can all participate in the "Sustainable Green Brain Gain"! Won't you join us?

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Treadle Pump
• Solar CITIES
• do-it-yourself
• Nigeria
• NIDO
• T.H. Culhane
• IDE

[tculhane]

A 3 and a half minute "melodic-mnemonic" music-video synopsis of the last couple of days of our trip to Nigeria and the preceding couple of days in Germany before we left.

[Redlarc]

thanks for the video, it opened my eyes. many thanks from upstate NY, our garden loves it!! (DAMN THAT SONG! haha)

[JimboJitsu]

could this be used to pump raw sewage into a biodigester? I was thinking of the cholera out breaks in Haiti and a possible solution.

[JimboJitsu]

great video, keep up the good work!