Muslim Aid is a faith-based British international charity that provides help to people who are victims of natural disasters, conflict or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy. It was established in the United Kingdom in 1985 in response to the drought in the Horn of Africa. Muslim Aid's Sudan Country office (MASCO) was set up in 1991 in response to the strategic need and to enable the continuation of effective aid work in the country. Currently, Muslim Aid is implementing projects in Kassala and Red Sea State in Sudan.

 Salary: SDG 3,000 (approximatelyUSD397.73 net)

 Estimated Start date: As soon as possible

 Supervisor: Program Manager

 No. of Post: 1

 Duty Station: Khartoum

 Duration: Fixed Term, 12 months with possibility of extension

 Closing Date: 26 Sept 2019

	Background: Muslim Aid is an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) that has been working in Sudan since 1991 in response to conflict, drought and famine. MAS focuses on the links and integration of food security, livelihoods, health, nutrition and WASH and works in partnership with other International and local NGOs. Muslim Aid – Sudan is seeking to recruit a suitable qualified Sudanese national for the position of Assistant Program Officer based in Khartoum with significant field travel. The Assistant Program Officer will support administrative and programmatic activities, data collection and communication, documenting of lessons learned as well as undertake specific programmatic activities.
	Duties and responsibilities: Administrative Provide administrative and practical support to all existing programs within Muslim Aid Sudan. To assist in ensuring that programs, comply with all policies and procedures, international humanitarian, child and vulnerable adults’ protection and development standards, legal and regulatory requirements. To make follow up and ensure timely correspondence, quarterly progress/completion reports including financial reports are produced in a timely and accurate manner in line with requirements for both donor/country office. Initiate and support the process of technical proposals for the raised calls for proposals. Close and supportive follow-up to program team through regular communications, field visits and other suitable activities. Program Development To assist in undertaking appropriate research that strengthens various aspects of program development Follow up on the implementation of the ongoing projects. Monitor the implementation process and make the required corrective actions as appropriate in close consultation with the Program Team. Reporting and Documentation To maintain program files and archives, prepare drafts of the requested reports, information and proposals, ensures tracking of the documents, timely responses to their quests, inquiries. To respond to external enquiries and monitoring/analyzing traffic to the department in order to develop most suitable approaches to material dissemination. Prepare quality progress reports for donors, partners and other stakeholders as appropriate. Ensure all Muslim Aid relevant projects are well documented on the project database. Communication Supervise and support communication with the target communities and ensure the communication is effective. Contribute to editing of the organizations’ annual report and other publications as required. Participate in the relevant cluster meetings with partners and stakeholders. Field Support Liaise with local authorities, partner organizations, NGOs, government bodies and clusters at base level. Any other relevant duty assigned by the management.
	Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required: Knowledge and Experience Essential/Desirable Qualification Degree in Community Development, social work or related field Essential Knowledge and Experience At least 3 years’ experience in programam development and implementation experience with any INGO or UN in sectors such as; health, nutrition, WASH, FSL, education, or others Knowledge of office systems and practice Knowledge of Issues around International Development Experience in the use of community participatory methodologies in emergency and development operation Experience in training, advocacy for change and ability to influence behavior Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Skills and Abilities Fluency in English and Arabic Languages Ability to work in a diverse team Good communication and interpersonal skills Strong numeracy and literacy skills Good organizational and time management skills Excellent report writing skills. Strong analytical abilities Good ICT skills, including MS Office Good attention to details Ability to adapt to changing deadlines and priorities Ability to work unsociable hours to meet deadlines Ability to be proactive Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative Ability to work in a systematic and methodical manner Ability to compile data for reports Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Essential Commitment Commitment to Muslim Aid’s mission, visions and values Commitment to Muslim Aid’s ethos Commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity Hard working and self-motivated Essential Essential Essential Essential
	Note: Interested applicants are requested to deliver their applications with C.Vs, copies of academic qualifications, copy of birth certificate and experience certificates toKhartoum HAC Labor Office Closing date: 26/9/2019 Only short listed candidates shall be invited for the interview.
	Please submit your CV to HAC (Humanitarian Aid Commission)

Bicycle Sprayer

Pest Control is an important step for good agriculture production and we have already discussed about mechanical sprayer in this blog.To do our own pest and weed control, we don't need any exotic equipment, you just need an idea and some knowledge of science. Mansukhbhai Jagani of Gujarat (India) has both and he invented bicycle sprayer which is topic of our today's discussion.

As we have discussed in my last post, that in mechanical sprayer farmers need to pump manually, as a result, spraying remains difficult task with these sprayers. Today, we will discuss bicycle sprayer which is much easier to operate than its predecessor as it is powered by bicycle.
What's the need?

Spraying of pesticides and other chemicals in the far is a tedious and laborious task. The conventional knapsack sprayers available in the market require manual labor to operate, and nowadays labor is difficult to find due to movement of farm laborers toward cities. The small farmers cannot afford to buy the power operated sprayer or tractor-mounted sprayers available in the market, as these are very costly and are of not much use to small farmers due to small land holdings.

Concept:

This system works on three important concepts:

1.First is to transform rotational motion into reciprocating motion. In other words, when wheels move in circular motion it should push and pull piston in to and fro motion. To build this system, we need two sprockets (one small and one large), chain, and connectors.  We will connect small sprocket (we can get it from any old bicycle or from any store) to the large sprocket using cycle chain. When we move bicycle forward, it moves both first sprocket, which eventually moves second sprocket at the top and this sprocket pushes the piston in to and fro motion as shown in video.

2.This reciprocating motion than pushes piston moves forward and backward in a repetitive cycle.

3.Pesticide pumps out of reservoir

For better understanding of inner mechanism of reservoir you need to understand basics of spray pump and how it moves liquid from reservoir to top. To pump out pesticide we should know that pesticide must always move outside from reservoir.

Fluid must move upward only, in other words, it must be unidirectional. This can be achieved only by one way valve. The most important part for any pumping mechanism is one way valve and in our experiment too, we will use valve which allow fuel to enter but stop it when it tries to exit.

sprocket is connected to the piston pump

Automobile Service Center Management System

Automobile Service Center Management System (ASCMS) is an application used for digitized  the paper work and reduce paper work. It is very useful software for small service centers who wants to computerized their work.

Advantages of using this software:
Maintain records of customers for years
Managing Stock
Generate Invoice
Developed in PHP so accessible from anywhere around the world

Tools Required:
PHP ( Programming Language), Apache Server & MySql (Xampp)
Codeigniter Framework
Download (Open Readme.txt for instructions)

Modification Required:
Automobile -> Application -> Config-> database.php (Line 51 to 54)

Why Codeigniter ?
Because it is a (Model View Controller) MVC Framework and reduce development time significantly.Without going into complex definitions, you simply understand it as in MVC, projects are divided into three parts :
Model : Works with database
View:  Works with user interface
Controller: Control everything and makes connection between model and view

In Codeigniter their are three different folders for each and you will start understanding it after reading tutorials or books about this framework.

Recommended Book:
CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development ( Kindle Edition for only $3 )

What is our objective?

Before beginning to develop any project, first we need to understand our goal. In this project we will develop PHP website where we will design customer form to get customer information, vehicle form to get details about customer vehicle. Then we will create job order for this particular customer. After that we will add purchases to this job order, thereafter generate invoices for that job.Meanwhile doing all the above things, we will also manage stock of the service center and for that we will need product and vendor forms.

Database:
I have choose Mysql as a database for this project. You can select any db of your choice. As we know our objectives, we get a clear idea of tables required by us.First we will need customer table to store customer data, second employee table to store employees of the store, third for storing invoices, fourth for storing job_order for vehicle, products for stock management, purchase details for storing purchase, vehicles and vendors for storing their data.

So, Important tables are:
customers
employees
invoices
job_order
orderdetails
payments
products
purchasedetails
vehicles
vendors
Detail Explanation:

Our Program has used 6 Controllers:

1. auth.php
We will use Tank Auth Module (Free Download) for authentication purposes and this controller performs function such as login, logout, redirect etc.

2. examples.php
We will use grocery crud Module (Free Download) for crud task and this is a controller provided by them. We customized it to use it according to our requirement. This controller helps us to do create, read, update, delete and edit  our table from php forms.

3.form.php
Form validation

4.invoice.php
Generate invoice : Take job order number and fetch all relevant data from the database tables to generate invoice with giving one last option of editing it.

5.welcome.php
check whether user is logged in if yes then redirect it to main page.

Views and Models:
They are self explanatory and have same names as controller.

I hope you would like this project!

Solar powered Pesticide Sprayer

We have discussed lots of agricultural projects on this blog.This post is part of that series. Farming is one of the most oldest and important business ever done by humans but in most parts of the world it is done in traditional way. Though, farmers are adapting to changing times but their are many more things that's need to be done.

Why ?

At present time we use Power sprayer in two stroke petrol engine which pollutes our environment. It requires regular maintenance and filter cleaning regularly. It costs around Rs.70 / hr or $ 0.96 / hr. As demand of energy increasing, its cost is increasing too.  As we have seen example of Tractors, Motors electrical pump, Technology is being useful for improving production

How to build this project?

Their are two ways you can do it. First one is from the scratch where we build each and everything ourselves and learn basics of motor, blower and solar power technology and second way is where we avoid reinventing the wheel instead of that focus on our task in hand which is building pesticide sprayer which runs with the help of solar power.

How ?

First method:
Prepare design of your sprayer using computer aided tool( CAD). You will require following materials for building this project:
Solar Panel Battery

Blower 

DC Motor 

Adjusting 

Screw 

Connecting wires 

Second method:
You will need 82 W 12 V electric motor of around 1kg weight. Connect this motor with Li-ion battery which is further connected with solar panel. It would cost you around Rs.70 / hour which is at par with petrol powered sprayer.

Zoology Project Ideas

In most simple words zoology is the science of study animals in their natural environment.
Nervous System:
1.Detail study about the role of each and every component of nervous system.
2.Design nervous system computer animation which shows function of each and every part of this system.


Reptiles:
It includes tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms.
1.You can conduct study on any of the above reptiles about their habitat, movement or classification.
2. Kids below 5 can also build paper reptiles to understand the basics of designing and movement of reptiles. For ex. If they build snake they need to build its tail in series with combination of rings fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament so that it looks and move like snake.

Animals:

1. Do animals have memory, smell senses or color distinguishes capabilities? Do some experiments to find out that and record your findings with data.One of the best way to do it is by constructing maze.

2.Study Animal's Populations in different environment and what are the reasons for their population growth at one place more than other place.Moreover, you can also study whether population growth depends only on availability of food or their are some other factors involved in it.

Hydraulic Clock

In the fast moving world where new products launch everyday, things looks obscure and understanding technology behind it looks out of reach and complex.Take an example of digital clock, we all use them but never bothered about how they work and technology used in building them. Today we are going to discuss project which is not only interesting but has its own significance in a journey of innovations. It will help students learn basics of hydraulics and fluid mechanics.  I have seen this project title at one education site and find it interesting enough to discuss with you.

What is Hydraulic clock?
It is water clock also known as "clepsydra" in greek means water. Water is the only source of energy other than gravity which keeps this clock moving.According to my knowledge first hydraulic clock was build by Chinese scientist Yi Xing in 1088 C.E.
How it works?
 It works on the concept of Hydraulics and often powered by Gravity. Its accuracy depends upon the inflow and outflow of water. Though it seems simple but to make it accurate is a mammoth task.

Is their any other alternatives ?

Yes they do, if you don't want to use water as its power source you can use human power and gravity together to construct your own mechanical clock. Concept of this clock would remain same with only thing changed is that, now you need to pull up some mass for gravity to attract in a controlled manner. Moreover, you need to pull this mass up whenever it gets grounded by gravitational force.

What this mechanism called?
It is known as  escapement which according to wikipedia is a device in mechanical powered clocks that transfers energy to the timekeeping element and allows the number of its oscillations to be counted.If you want you can Read More about escapement here. 

Spherical Solar Energy Cells

The biggest hurdle in the use of clean energy is their costing which is far more than traditional sources. We at Projectideasblog.com always try to bring you information about the latest technologies and innovation and this article is one of those posts where we will not discuss about idea but technology which in future has potential to change our lives.Scientist around the world are working day and night to make it cost effective.Batteries and Material cost are two main reasons for its high production cost. We can bring down its cost in two ways; first by reducing the price of storage that we discussed in our last post and second by improving the efficiency which we are discussing today.

Today we will discuss about the new solar cell developed by Barcelona scientist Andre Broessel which can significantly improve the efficiency of existing cells. It is with solar energy is its low efficiency. German Architect Andre experiment seems to be solution of this problem and it would improve its efficiency by 35 percent.It is based on the concept of focusing sunlight to one point. Founder of this technology claims that it will not only improve efficiency of solar power plant but also produce electricity when sunlight is not widely available i.e. night.Moreover with the help of spherical cells we can produce solar power 24x7 which is itself a revolution and launchpad for future ideas to blossom.

Helpful links:
Spheral Power
Rawlemon Solar Devices

How it works?
It catches sun rays from all directions and concentrate this rays(moonlight or sunlight) on one point.Biggest advantage of using this technology is that It concentrates light by 10,000 times.

Important Links:

Rawlemon Spherical Solar Energy Generator