We developed our growing belief in small-scale water technologies for poor farmers as a means to escape poverty by following the work of:
- Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises. His book Out of Poverty helped us develop and define our entrepreneurial vision.
- Nick Moon and Martin Fisher, founders of KickStart International. Their innovative tools, technologies and tireless efforts to develop micro-technology pumps have changed the lives of many thousands of farmers in Africa. BB2C, too, hopes to change the lives of Cambodians, one pump at a time, one family at a time. The KickStart staff has been unendingly helpful in providing guidance to BB2C. We are grateful to Ken Weimar, John Kinga, Anne Wambui and especially Liddon Muturi whose e-mails have been a constant source of encouragement as the pump project experienced setback upon setback.
Our immeasurable appreciation to Candy Orlinsky and Barbara Samuels. Because of Barbara’s generous gift Rudi’s birth family was able to move from its hut that flooded during the rainy season into an apartment. Candy paid the family’s medical bills after Rudi’s birth father was critically injured in an accident. At the time of the land grab, when the villagers were starving, subsisting on wild fruit, Candy and Barbara provided funds for BB2C to get emergency supplies through to the villagers.
Brown, Rudnick, Berlack, Isreals LLP for their legal assistance in setting us up as a non-profit with 501 (c)(3) status. We hope we didn’t cause too much work for the firm.
We express our gratitude to Melissa Cahill for all her work on our website. She really understood what we wanted to accomplish.
Janice LaRouche whose good judgment is matched only by her great patience.
Eli Shirk, 14 years old and long-suffering brother to Rudi, for his help editing the website and providing metric conversions.
Anita Gilodo a source of quiet and constant encouragement, receives our abiding gratitude.
