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Name : Arnold Wendroff 06/29/01
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Title : Video tape of bicycle-wheel handcart construction and application (in Malawi) 2000 available
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Comments : A VHS video tape of the building, testing, and application of the "Libingstonia-Cart" bicycle-wheel handcart, is available to interested parties. The tape is some one and one half hours long, and can be obtained by contacting me at (718) 499-8336.
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : Discussions with Malawi Rural Travel and Transport Programme
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Comments : 6/29/01
Phone conversation of June 28, 2001 with Mr. Arthur C. Chibwana, Programme Coordinator of the MRTTP suggests that handcart technology is to be evaluated for incorporation into MRTT programme.
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Name : john
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Title : other applications
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Comments : 7/2/01
This is a great idea! Why not use these to deliver people and goods here in the USA in congested areas where motor vehiclular traffic has clogged our roads and byways- foot traffic can always find a way, and the efficiency of unhindered deliveries must be considered! Keep up the good work.
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : MZUZU (MALAWI) CITY ASSEMBLY ORDERS TEN HANDCARTS
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Comments : 8/10/01
The Mzuzu City Assembly has ordered ten (10) "Livingstonia-type" handcarts for rubbish collection. Mr. Hastings Mkandawire, a teacher at Masasa Community Day Secondary School in Mzuzu, has contracted to supply the handcarts. Financing was in part obtained from the Malawi Handcart Project in New York City, USA.
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : MALAWI HANDCART PROJECT ITDG-EAST AFRICA COLLABORATION
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Comments : The Malawi Handcart has donated U.S. to the Intermediate Technology Development Group (East Africa Division/Nairobi Kenya) to allow the ITDG to build several 'Livingstonia-Cart' handcarts and assess their utility in the East African context. They will be used in both urban as well as rural areas.
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Date : 16 Oct 2001
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : Malawi Rural Travel and Transport Programme purchased 56 "Livingstonia-Carts" from Livingstonia Technical College
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Comments : Mr. Arthur C. Chibwana, the Programme Co-ordinator for the World Bank sponsored Malawi Rural Travel and Transport Programme headquartered in Lilongwe, today stated that he had ordered 56 handcarts from Livingstonia Technical College. A source at Livingstonia informed me that many of these carts were being shipped today to the RTTP via truck. This is the largest trial of the bicycle-wheel wood frame handcart to date.
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Date : 30 Oct 2001
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : MALAWI RTTP HANDCART ORDER: READ 16 FOR 56
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Comments : Faulty communications led me to erroneously report that the Malawi RTTP had ordered 56 handcarts from Livingstonla Technical College. Mr. Joseph Longwe, the Principal of LTP informed me that the RTTP (Arthur C. Chibwana, Program Coordinator, had in fact ordered 16 of the handcarts.
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Date : 09 Nov 2001
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Name : Arnold Wendroff
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Title : ATNESA - FAO - GTZ CONFERENCE ON MODERNISING AGRICULTURE
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Comments : The Malawi Handcart Project sponsored the participation of Mr. Wells Kumwenda, agricultural engineer (of the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture's Chitedze Agricultural Research Station) and of Dr. Arnold Wendroff (research associate, Department of Geology, Brooklyn College/CUNY) at the 5-day Workshop on Modernising Agriculture in Africa: Animal Traction and Conservation Tillage, held in Jinja, Uganda from May 20 -24. Dr. Wendroff presented a poster and a paper, as well as demonstrating a sample Malawi Cart (built for the occasion by the carpentry shop of the Sunset Hotel, the wokshop venue).
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Date : 05 Jul 2002
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Name : alfred osunsanya: [email protected]
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Title : Handcart
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Comments : A brilliant example of the way to move rural development and appropriate and affordable technology forward
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Date : 13 Jul 2002
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Name : Jane
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Title : New York Times Article
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Comments : Congratulations on the article. For anyone that is interested, the link is http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/nyregion/14CART.html
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Date : 9/15/02
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Name : Isaac Sakala
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Title : Project Coordinator, Africare Smallholder Agriculture Mechanization Promotions
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Comments : A good innovation to ease rural transport as an intermediate means of transport. Rural loads has always been a burden for Africa's women and children. This innovation will encourage more men to take part in carrying heavy loads hence letting and freeing w
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Date : 18th September 2002
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