Thursday 14 April 2011

Kwa thema Domestic pollution

Kwa thema is a township which is situated in Ekurhuleni in the east of Johannesburg South Africa.Kwa thema township is having high number of unemployment, And crime is high.
Kwa thema is a township which originated from aera called Paynville. poeple were moveed from Paynville because of Tornado which struck in 1958. the other reason was apartheid.
Kwa thema is township which still using coal stoves as way of cooking, boiling water and warming the house. the coal stoves were introduced by the goverment of that time, because believed that blacks did not deserve electricity. they have to used coal as the they are black. It was rasist goverment,Majority of Kwa thema still uses the coal stoves as of today.Kwa thema at five in afternoon is dark because of the smoke everybody is making fire for cooking, Its like seven in the envening.I Meshack went out to make a reseach, to find out how much our peolpe know about smoke that is produced by the same coal stoves they are using and the negative effect it has in they health as well as pollution in the artmosphere.Educate them about rewable energies.
The first family i spoke to, is the family of.
1 Mafa C Mahlangu
1.He still used coal stove because he is earning very less and cannot afford the prepaid eletricity. He only uses electricity for lights.
2.He has no idea of pollution of the artmosphere, but has little information about them getting sick from the smoke,
3,No idea about Renewable energy, and he indicated after i explain to him that will be a good idea to have that, Replacing coal
The second family Jampi S Monedi
1. He is having a family of seven,not working, the coal stove save him a lot, because they make fire once a day, but can cook many times, boil water and warm the the house as well. they only used electricity for for lights,
2.Monedi knows little about the danger of the smke in their health but nothing about polltion of the artmosphere.
3.No idea about renewable energy,
ACTION
I explain to both the families about the danger of smoke,and how it pollutes our artmospher and educated them renewable energy,
Most of our poeple still need education climate change, What affects it, what is Carbon dioxide and other chemicals, Because commutieis in shacks still use Mbawulas and sleep with it inside the house,
LOCAL LEADERS
They did want to be mentioned.
Their are prepared to deal with the matter after elections. I try persuade them that this issue is of important during these elections, because it will be raising awareness about domestic pollution.
Climate change is likely to have far reaching and catastrophic social impacts and will affect communities in different ways.It is shocking that leaders dont want to entertain this issue of pollution or because they dont know about it SAVE KWA THEMA
MESHACK MBANGULA
Kwa thema environmetal org

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