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2001

In Badagry/Nigeria in April 2001 the information and Servicecentre "solar station Badagry" were opened.

In order to extend the function of the " solar station Badagry ", with support of the Berlin regional head office
for development co-operation, they bought a small wind generator and a laptop with simulation programs for the clarification
of solar home systems.

2002

In the beginning of 2002 the "Solar Station Badagry" moved in Badagry/Nigeria into new office premises; there a wind
generator (with support of the LEZ) was installed and the offer pallet was extended by telephone service and sales of
small solar devices.

Some existing solar plants in Badagry were waited and repaired, also fruit trees and coconut palms were planted,
and in the same time, the building design was started on the future institute ground of the IFET. (institutes for Environmental Technologies)

2003

Since the existing of the "Solarstation Badagry" several solar home system were installed in 2003
in Badagry and existing plants were repaired. Advisory activities to solar energy was expanded too.

A farm project of the Gbewa women's cooperative in Badagry was asessed by Soned and was supported
during the filling of an application for medias of promotion.
To support the project work in Nigeria, a "Donation campaign" was started, and rooms rented on Markgrafendamm 14/15,
Berlin, in order to take an inventory of the donations.

2004

For the area of the Institutes of the Environmental Technologies (IFET) was sketched a Permacultur Design,
and began to arrange a tropical forest garden.

In Gberefu, near Badagry, a solar plant was installed. This serves the lighting of the community furnishings,.
For the support of the work on the project in Nigeria, gifts were collected and
an inventory was made on the Markgrafendamm 14/15 in Berlin, and an aid transport was prepared.

2005 conversion of the action plan compiled in 2004:
Our project partner created the " Solarstation Nigeria Ltd.", a small business which markets
solar technology and offers workplaces for 2 young persons and creating the foundation-stone for an educational enterprise.
In the context of a visit in Osogbo, with the Yoruba-artist Susanne Wenger, a project for an elementary
school that takes place, since the ninties, was offered to us, in which, apart form the regular education, also the art and culture of the
Yoruba should be taught.

Susanne Wenger und Mr Lanre Odubela (Solarstaion Nigeria)

In May 2005, our member of the committee, Ulrich Jadke, visited in Lagos a Congress of the European Foreign Trade Chamber,
for the promotion of pollution-control technologies in Nigeria. In the context of the congress, a coopoeration
was reconcilled with the Nigerian NGO CCDI, which particularly engages itself in the promotion of women in the north of Nigeria.

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