Over 100 residents and youth of South Durban community came by car and motor taxis to attend the first Bucket air sampling building and training outside the United States.  The John Dunn House swelled with excitement as people exposed to pollution hungered to discover what they were breathing.

Denny Larson of CBE gathered the crowd for some hands on experience in assembling the Bucket air sampling devices.

A packed room of South Durban residents listened to information on how Bucket air sampling has cleaned up pollution in America.

Many youth groups and students were in attendance as the Buckets were introduced to South Africa.
 

To "break the ice" in the meeting, people from different neighbourhoods played a game of "human bingo", which requires getting to know new folks.

Residents ask each other about who has asthma in their family to establish health impacts of pollution.

Youth groups from the Umlazi district pitched in to build South Africa's first home grown Buckets.

A young student drills holes in the Bucket lid for the necessary valves.

Understanding that science and technical information is within their grasp is a key goal of the Bucket Brigade training.

Shipra Bansal, technical advisor for the South Africa Bucket Brigade team, explains air sample data and what it means to the student's health.

At about 1:00 PM, the Bucket Brigade is called into action when strange clouds of two tone smoke and odours erupt from the ENGEN refinery near the training.

Unknown releases were documented from ENGEN refinery during shutdown procedures.

The South Durban Bucket Brigade springs into action as ENGEN releases unkown toxins.

Bobby Peek of groundWork and Michelle Simon, Coordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance take an air sample at ENGEN's fenceline.

At the same time of sampling another chimney dumps on the community.

More smokey pollution spews out of ENGEN as the shutdown continues minutes later.
 

Carte Blanche, South Africa's award winning investigative television program, films the Bucket Brigade for an upcoming show.

Manu Padyachee interviews Shipra Bansal for the upcoming segment in June to be viewed in 26 countries.

After a grueling day of Bucket building, training and sampling, the organizers pose for their official pictures.

The Bucket Brigade Team responsible for Africa's first air sampling project with Carte Blanche's Manu.
 

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