Our science class had a GHOA chat with NYU student, Karishma Bhagani. The purpose of this is to get to know about Karishma’s project and we are going to try how we can help her to save the earth from polluted water.
Karishma is from Mombasa, Kenya and the picture below is where her hometown is located.
She made a project “Matone de Chiwit” meaning “drops of life.” Her goal of this project is to provide a clean drinking water source to rural communities in Mombasa through a water filter unit made of locally available resources, costing less than $10 for a minimum of 18 months of use.
From this experience, I felt that it was really interesting that we could talk with her about her project, even though she lives far away from us. It was nice of her to share her story to us. Also it was a grateful event while Earth Day is coming close.
Our group prepared some questions to ask Karishma. The questions were “Who did you work with to create te system?” / “What Problems did you run into when making the system?” / ” Where do you see this project going?”
During the Google Hangout, we only had one question ask so, this is the question our group asked : What problems did you run into when making the system?
The answer she replied to us was : She tried chlorine to clean the polluted water but unfortunately she found out a way. A vegetable called drumsticks worked to clean the water.
The other groups asked :
- Do you think that the country Kenya is over looked?
- Is it possible to use salt water from the ocean?
She answered :
- Many different developing countries in Asia or Africa are over looked.
- Salt water is full of saline so not at the moment but hopefully in the future.
This is a picture of us doing Google Hangout with Karishma Bhagani.