Safely home and back on the road soon.

Wilson is safely home from Kenya, he reports everything went well.

He will be leaving for Washington DC this week to go to brunch at the white house. We wish him the best for his meeting with the president and his lecture at the National Press Club, which will also occur next week.

The solar panels and other equipment are shipped out and on thier way to Kenya. They will be arriving on Nov, 11th, 2009 and the install will commence promptly after that.

Special thanks to Debra Garrison and Navis Pack and Ship. They did a great job handling our shipping needs and working with us.

Less than a month until Wilson and Barrett go to Kenya to get the install started. The pretraining in the village in Kenya will be starting around October 21st.

There will be signifigantly more action for the next few months, check back for updates!

Wilson in Kenya

Our leader, Wilson, is in Kenya this week spreading the news of Solar Maasai and speaking to various rotary clubs and media representatives. We wish him well on his travels and planting the seeds for a successful initial training next month. He will be returning briefly on the 20th before heading to Washington D.C. for his brunch with the Obama family to celebrate the release of his book, 14 Cows for America.

All of us on the AANF/Solar Maasai team wish him good luck and safe travels!

Solar Lanterns!

We have secured solar lanterns for the outlying homes surrounding the school. This great success come thanks to One Million Lights. Check out thier good work and see how much difference light can make.

Our New Partner

I would like to announce and thank Exide technologies for joining our team. They are coming to our aide supplying high quality batteries to store the electricity generated by the solar(PV) panels.



Welcome to the team, we appreciate your support!

Pictures from the Event

Technical Design is finalized

The technical design has been finalized for the project. For all those technically inclined folks, here it the electrical diagram which was created by our team engineer, Kevin Myers. Thanks to Kevin for the great work! Please contact Kevin with any technical questions at his email: kevin.myers@sunpowercorp.com

Solar Maasai Show is a great success!

Jambo,

I'd like to thank everyone who came out to the Solar Maasai show, we had a great time and raised over two thousand dollars! Thanks to everyone who attended with a second thanks to those who donated.

I would also like to acknowledge the musicians who made everything possible.

Sila was very inspiring with his soulful renditions of Kenyan songs. Please check out his new album "Black President" and his website www.victorsila.com

Dublin rocked the party as we expect from this bay area veteran. Stay tuned for his new album "Ease the Pain" which is coming out next month. Stay in touch through either www.jazzmafia.com or www.myspace.com/dublin

A special thanks to Beta Lounge for providing the space for all of us. Elon and Gabe you are amazing hosts.

Guenet and Sophia, you also brought it all together and we couldn't have done it without you.

We look forward to another event when we return celebrating the completion of the installation.

Thanks everyone and I will be posting video of the performances very soon!

Solar Maasai Benefit Show

Sunday July 26th
4pm-8pm
Beta Lounge, Berkeley, CA

The definitive place to be
Featuring: Sila of Sila and the Afrofunk Experience
and the one and only: Dublin of Jazz Mafia

This show is Free. A great time will be had. If you miss it you might have a massive guilt complex for the rest of your life. Save yourself the agony and have a good time for the sake of some nice people in Kenya. Even if you don't like parties you can still come out and enjoy donating some money. It's for a great cause.