Running for Chepel – third approach
Good things come to those who wait: Leonie and Isabelle start at the 250 km ultra marathon in Atacama desert in Chile, which is the driest desert in the world, …
Category: Infrastructure
Update from Chepel
After a long pause due to Covid-19 we’re finally back to Chepel, to meet friends, but mainly to find out what the situation is about. The micro-hydropowerplant is still working …
Sustainable Village Development
In January 2021 a new project started, covering a structured and sustainable development in Chepel for the next 3 years to come. The principal purpose of the projet is to …
A Sports And Play Ground For Chepel
Beneath the school Chepel`s inhabitants have flattened a wide area in order to provide a play and sports ground in Chepel. In the hilly mountain area this is an exhausting …
A Flower Mill For Chepel
With the electricity Chepel now has a grinding mill. This means, that the women, who mainly do the work, are over 100 times faster in grinding their corn and it …
Smokeless Stoves
Houses in Chepel and the surrounding villages all consist of one piece which is used for living, sleeping and cooking. Until 2018 most of the houses had an open fireplace …
Electricity For Chepel
Until November 2017 Chepel did not have a power supply at all. This concerned both the households and the “farming” as well as the school. In 2013 a project was …
Water Supply For Every Household
Friends of Chepel e.V. has provided a 500 l water tank to each household in Chepel so that people have fresh and running water all over the year.Before that, the …
School Buildings in Chepel
This is how a classroom looked like in 2012: a loamy ground, no windows, no heating, old furnitures, the walls not plastered. We first started to renovate the school in …
A New Steel Bridge For Chepel
This was Friends of Chepel`s first big project. The community in Chepel had a real problem with their wooden bridge and it was a big plea to get a steel …