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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RV Pundit on April 20, 2021, 06:42:15 PM
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Of the 489,000 new jobs created, between 40-45 percent of the jobs have been filled by women.
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https://olc.worldbank.org/content/cobblestone-streets-cities-ethiopia
https://citiesalliance.org/newsroom...ting-jobs-and-empowering-ethiopias-urban-poor
Germans came to Ethiopia to train 150 pavers and 1150 chiselers and trainers in 2007. From 2012-2015, Ethiopians constructed 350 km of cobblestone roads in over 140 cities at a cost of 58 million euros.
In the capital of Oromia, the cost of a cobblestone paved road was just 15 euros per square meter. A 200 m road, costs no more than 21,500 euros.
The three main steps of cobblestone road paving include:
Quarrying
Extracting raw material from a quarry near the city
Chiseling
Transforming the raw material into cobblestones
Paving
Laying the cobblestones
The heavy and capital intensive machinery required to build the asphalt roads that we currently use across Somalia make it cost prohibitive to pave roads in most places, especially rural villages.
Benefits of cobblestone paved roads
Far more durable and lower maintenance than asphalt roads
Cobblestones are reusable
Unlike asphalt, cobblestone roads are permeable, allowing water to penetrate the surface. This decreases flooding and replenishes groundwater stocks.
Significantly reduces dust and flooding which, in turn, reduces respiratory and waterborne illnesses like malaria and cholera
Provides charcoal workers alternative and environmentally friendly employment
Increases land value and promotes business along new roads
Teaches local municipal governments how to manage their own development projects due to the low costs and decentralized nature of the industry
Keeps money in the local economy since everything is made and sourced locally whereas asphalt flows money out through purchases of oil and machinery from different countries
Decreases public transportation costs
Provides employment for previously unemployed women and youth
Community driven so that locals have a stake in road quality as well as the skills to maintain it
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Would work in most of Nairobi Metro neighberhood.
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I think this is a great idea!
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It is - especially for our cities and urban areas - and even rural areas. Places like Vihiga with granite rocks have ideal stones to make really strong roads.
I think this is a great idea!
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Ethiopia really going big on this
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Nairobi is on cabros steroids.
https://web.facebook.com/waihenya.ndirangu/posts/1276572099405625
https://web.facebook.com/waihenya.ndirangu/posts/1274193506310151
This is Waihenya Ndirangu who replaced Waruru Kanja as Mp. Lucky bugger.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/m/2001243442/no-experience-no-problem-when-kenyan-voters-elected-a-22-year-old-to-the-parliament
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Masks are a merely symbolic of following a world gov cult. People should be let to go on with life.
We are now staring at full blown starvation... I don't know which vaccine treats starvation.
I agree with pundits labour intensive economic activities as long as gov runs money printing press the likes never seen before instead of borrowing IMF
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Masks are a merely symbolic of following a world gov cult. People should be let to go on with life.
We are now staring at full blown starvation... I don't know which vaccine treats starvation.
I agree with pundits labour intensive economic activities as long as gov runs money printing press the likes never seen before instead of borrowing IMF
:D That is a recipe for a Zimbabwe style inflation.
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Yes Cabros are even better for inner roads. Why gov is not gong biggly on this? But I believe for peri-urban roads - the bigger cobble stone would be ideal
Nairobi is on cabros steroids.
https://web.facebook.com/waihenya.ndirangu/posts/1276572099405625
https://web.facebook.com/waihenya.ndirangu/posts/1274193506310151
This is Waihenya Ndirangu who replaced Waruru Kanja as Mp. Lucky bugger.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/m/2001243442/no-experience-no-problem-when-kenyan-voters-elected-a-22-year-old-to-the-parliament