[Civsoc-mw] [NYASANET] Firewoood

[Tony Thontholani]

Haven’t I read somewhere recently that the British Government pumped £4.5 billion into Malawi? 
That amount should be enough, I guess, to realise clean energy for the whole country. We could even have been exporting energy. 

Even at the boarding school I went to, cooks used firewood to prepare food. No wonder the dudes were sweating all the time 😓  

But imagine how many trees were cut down to feed us?

Our school was electrified but someone somewhere thought firewood was good for the preparation of red beans and hard starchy porridge. 
> On 13. May 2019, at 20:29, Joel Jere <jwjere at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Many Malawians in the rural areas can not afford to pay the substantial
> electricity bills that come with an electric cooker. Even when power lines
> pass over a village only 5% can afford the connection fee.