PARSA's New Generator
September 2006
Thanks to Danny Hilario and the generous alumni of the American International School of Kabul (AISK), who raised $1,000, PARSA now has a new generator for the guest house, gift shop, and administrative offices. The previous generator was at least eight years old and seemed to require fixing at least once or twice a week.
To the AISK alumni, Marnie writes…
Dear folks,
Dawn is finally sitting on me to tell the generator story....we have been waiting for everything to get fixed....but operations in Afghanistan are the equivalent of a riot....everyone gets in on the act and nothing moves....So here we go....We finally got the money....Yasin bought a beautiful big 15 kilowatt commercial diesel generator (single cylinder) — the outcome if which was that it sounded as if we had a freight train in our back yard; it took four men to start it....(I thought that Norm was going to expire trying to do it himself) and could have provided light for the entire neighborhood. We have regrouped, assigned a generator committee and traded this monster in for a 10 kilowatt model based on a Toyota diesel engine that is being built for us right now....Sorry for not letting you all know sooner....the generator is so exciting to us and we do not want to repeat the experience that Normrm and I had of buying one that lasted four hours and then expired. And we had no recourse with the merchant....So — we will send you a picture as soon as it is here....Meanwhile we have solved the current energy drain by reverting to the old-fashioned way of ironing — we heat them on the stove.
Love to all...M
October 2011
