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16 September 2009: The biogas activities of Mpfuneko Community Support are news in South Africa. Over the last two weeks there have been reports on Mpfuneko's biogas project in a provincial newspaper (Sowetan), on the radio, and in Morning Live, a national television program.
17 April 2008: IDS has been recognised as a organisation for the public benefit (ANBI-instelling) by the Dutch tax collector. This makes that gifts to IDS are deductable from Dutch income tax (conditions apply, see ‘How to make a donation?’).
22 March 2008: Mr. Martien Würdemann has been appointed as the chairman of IDS. Martien Würdemann has a long experience in the field of thermal waste treatment and energy technology. In his 20 years with Royal Haskoning he acted as a senior consultant, project manager and director for a wide variety of projects in the indicated sectors, including:
- a large number of Environmental Impact Assessment Studies for waste incineration, thermal sludge treatment and incineration of biomass in power plants;
- a large number of projects for the preparation, realisation and improvement of plants for thermal treatment of waste and biomass; and
- a wide variety of assignments for assessments, second opinions and due diligence investigations, related to (problems with) projected or existing thermal waste treatment plants.
- He was consultant for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment on the IPPC-procedure for the selection of Best Available Techniques (BAT) for Waste Incineration.
- Involved technologies were collection of waste, pre-treatment, recycling, incineration, pyrolysis, gasification, flue gas treatment, residue treatment etc. Involved sectors were municipal waste, clinical waste, hazardous waste, municipal and paper sludge, various types of manure, wood and other types of biomass, fossil fuels.
- Furthermore he was a Board Member of the Royal Haskoning Shareholders Foundation.
- He executed projects in Spain (many times), Curacao, Russia, Slovakia (many times), Belgium, Portugal, Israel, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Yemen, USA, France, Aruba, and Sénégal.
6 February 2008: IDS Foundation Project of the month www.linkis.nl
5 January 2008: IDS starts fund rasing campaign for 2008 IDS signed an agreement with Wilde Ganzen (www.wildeganzen.nl) to raise funds. Under Dutch income tax regulations, gifts or donations to Wilde Ganzen are tax deductible. Wilde Ganzen will add 50% to the donated amount. In this way your donation will be more effective. Click here for more information.
20 December 2007: Donation HIVOS IDS has signed a contract with HIVOS for the construction of a biogas digester in Giyani. HIVOS is a Dutch NGO that, guided by humanist values, wants to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world (www.hivos.nl). HIVOS will contribute 15.000 euro of the 50.000 euro needed for the pilot project.