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EWB Kenya Water Team Meeting

EWB Water Team Meeting will be Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Bren 3526

Kenya Education Subteam Meeting

The education subteam will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, 10/21) at 7PM in the library. We'll meet on the couches across from the circulation desk then find a group study room. If you're running late or can't find us, please call me at 805-450-9517.

First Project Meetings

The Kenya Project team will hold it's first project meetings of the quarter on

Monday, October 12th at 5PM in ESB2001

and

Wednesday, October 14th at 6PM in ESB 2003

Feel free to attend the meeting that fits into your schedule the best, we'll be going over the same material at both. We'll be discussing the history of the project, our accomplishments this summer on our first implementation trip, and how you can get involved in the upcoming year so be sure to attend! If you have any questions, contact Jessica at jessica.krogstad@gmail.com.

Goat time

Today is our last full day in Luanda. In the morning we went through the leftover supplies, part of which we are using for spares at the clinic and the rest we are donating to another nearby school so that they can build their own rainwater catchment system. After this I reviewed the maintanence information again with Michael the security guard. We had arranged for a well surveyor to come out and surveyor the surrounding area. We spent about an hour with the surveyor looking around for a good site to survey and then watched him use his machinery to test for groundwater. He apparently looks for changes in resistance in the ground to find the groundwater. This evening we are having a farewell party in our honor. Viagenco killed a goat and two chickens (one of which temporarily escaped but after a chase of a half hour or so, they caught it), and tons of fish. The typical Kenyan party includes tons of speeches, so I expect that we’ll hear at least 4 or 5… with Roy required to give at least one. Tomorrow we leave for Kisumu in the morning… and then we are off for states to begin work on next years project for the Luanda Community.
-Scott

Color wheels and wells

Tuesday I spent the morning training Michael, the security guard and handy man, how to maintain the water system and test the chlorine. Unfortunately, we found that the directions were a little convoluted and we weren’t able to figure out how much chlorine we should add to the water. We’ll have to go back to the states, rewrite the chlorine section of the maintenance guide. We are also bringing back some of the chlorine we bought for the clinic (we bought 45 kilos worth!) so that we can figure out how much we should bring. In the process of training Michael, I had to figure out the color wheel for testing the chlorine on the fly. When determining what data to collect, I realized that we really need to redo the datasheet that they will record the data on as well. I made a handwritten one which will have to do until we can post another maintenance manual. In the afternoon we met with the downtown Luanda community to discuss the drilling of another well for them. About 12 people showed up and though very quiet, I think they were very interested in having a well in their area.
-Scott

Color wheels and wells

Tuesday I spent the morning training Michael, the security guard and handy man, how to maintain the water system and test the chlorine. Unfortunately, we found that the directions were a little convoluted and we weren’t able to figure out how much chlorine we should add to the water. We’ll have to go back to the states, rewrite the chlorine section of the maintenance guide. We are also bringing back some of the chlorine we bought for the clinic (we bought 45 kilos worth!) so that we can figure out how much we should bring. In the process of training Michael, I had to figure out the color wheel for testing the chlorine on the fly. When determining what data to collect, I realized that we really need to redo the datasheet that they will record the data on as well. I made a handwritten one which will have to do until we can post another maintenance manual. In the afternoon we met with the downtown Luanda community to discuss the drilling of another well for them. About 12 people showed up and though very quiet, I think they were very interested in having a well in their area.