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Foundation close-up

Comparing roof/truss options for e-Luma

e-Luma site outlining

e-Luma site

Shops in Junction being remodeled

oilpalm nut fly ash as substitute for expensive cement?

Roof of Medical Center

E-Luma container candidate

Mixing concrete

Fires in Yele to burn tall grass

Emily & Paul inspecting containers

E-Luma container candidate

Laying bricks

Compacting sand/rocks

Fatima container restaurant 2

Fatima container restaurant 1

Sun sets as last concrete is poured

Cleaning/Paining of e-Luma container

Rust damaged container

Containers for improvised industrial use

Emily and school children

e-Luma shooting roots

Talking to a renown local artist/painter

Music/phone charging store at junction

Store at Junction

Carpenter, supporter of e-Luma

Empty stalls at end of day

Empty shops at end of day

Shops on Junction

Shops on Junction

Roof of existing shops in Junction

Musa checking out the new barefoot lights

Meeting with Shaka and Desmond, the construction team leads

Container roof design

Paul with Maria, our wonderful host

Emily at the Zebra House

Watching Barcelona vs Espanyol in Yele

Paul & Emily at the LHF compound

Laundry at the river

Freetown’s landmark cotton tree

Anna’s first Sierra Leonean fish

Kicking off the 2012 expedition

UNIMAK students with part of the Project Yele team

Tori

Explaining PowerNed to the community

Tall Sierra Leonean trees (and Antal)

Shop owner testing solar lights

Paramount Chief with part of the Project Yele team

Palm oil rubber containers

Beach in Freetown

Maria and Antal

Presenting eLuma to the community

Children from Yele

Kids at Junction, in Yele

Kid from Yele

Beach in Freetown

One of the families surveyed by the team

D-Lab: explaining charcoal techniques

“eLuma” on a beach in Freetown

Making balloon animals at medical center

Don from Lion Heart Foundation, Paramount Chief, and Paul from Project Yele

D-Lab charcoals

D-Lab charcoals (MIT)

A wall full of bulletholes in Freetown

River after torrential rain

Barcelona fan in Sierra Leone

Making balloones at the medical center

Kids from Yele

Hiking in the countrside

Interviewing shop owners

Snake caught in a trap

Presenting eLuma to the Deputy Minister of Energy

Lion Heart Foundation’s PowerNed

Kids from Yele

Meeting with the Paramount Chief

Source of palm wine

Starry night in Yele

Child playing with bubbles

Measuring the land

Antal and Tori playing with the girls

Girl playing with bubbles

Land surveying

Kids in the fields

Young child from Yele

Sierra Leonean countryside

Taking a hike in the countryside

Girl walking with her goats

Farmland

Edward

Antal and Tori playing with children from Yele

Checking containers for possible conversion into market shops

Deputy Minister of Energy inspecting the hydro power plant

Tori dancing with children from Yele

Part of the team having a rest

Chameleon

Child playing with bubbles

Paul bonding with a kid from Yele

Bottle openers on sale for Project Yele!

Bottle openers on sale for Project Yele!

Bottle openers on sale for Project Yele!

Mauricio and Antal having an afternoon coffee

Tori playing with children from Yele

Antal with children from Yele

Tori with the owl

Part of Project Yele team

Mauricio in one of the containers

Container

Discussing the options

Working on the D-lab with clay

Releasing the owl

Interviewing Mauricio

Meeting

Meeting

Children in Yele

Child in Yele

Welcome to Sierra Leone

Woman and her baby, watching football players

Playing football

Playing football

Antal and designs

Antal and Tori working

Antal grating cassawa for briquettes

Lunch with the paramount chief of Yele

Big brown snake

Container possibly to recycle

Fuel mixed with water scam

Antal and part of the team having dinner

Immigration forms

Paul waiting for ferry in Yele

Working on the D-lab

Possible model for container in Community Bazaar

Container

Thick charcoal

Boys from Yele

Owl

Baker in Sierra Leone

Antal in Yele

Gold mining

Kids from Yele

Mauricio and Tori waiting

Market in Sierra Leone

Making pot models for D-lab

Burning palm leaves

Paul at the palm oil mill

Palm oil process

Chameleon

Playing basketball in Freetown

Part of the team preparing business plans

Yele locals doing laundry

Girls from Makeni dancing

Slums of Freetown

Edward checking Project Yele’s Facebook page

Part of the team with the Deputy Minister of Energy of Sierra Leone

Boat near Freetown

Part of the team at work

Paul in Yele

Mauricio

View of Sierra Leone from above

Girls from Yele

Baby from Yele